Reviews
Book Review: The End of the World As We Know It
The current media landscape is littered with nostalgia grabs like so many abandoned cars rotting on the road from Maine to Boulder. We’ve seen reboots of the movies we loved as children as well as do-we-really-need-this sequels that serve us the familiar, the comfortable, and the already-experienced. In the complicated …
Book Review: The Kiss Catastrophe
It’s always nice to read science fiction with believable science. Getting through a whole book without wincing while you try to contort your brain around a ridiculous scientific assertion is refreshing. So, when I learned that Colorado author Raima Larter has a multi-decades-long background in chemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, statistical mechanics …
Foundation Book vs AppleTV Production
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is a seminal work of science fiction, prominently topping many lists of ground-breaking and genre-defining works. The original story consisted of three related books: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. Each represents a step for humanity in the evolving political progression from the current First …
Fairy Tale: The Benefit and Beauty of Varying Perspectives
Give a group of authors the same writing prompt, and they will write unique stories with diverse characters and emotional journeys, differing plot elements, and singular plot twists that any element of commonality is difficult to find. Such is the power and joy of writing speculative fiction. Even the incredible …
La Jetée: A Classic, Mindblowing SF Experience
Chris Marker’s 1962 film, La Jetée, clocks in at a mere twenty-eight minutes, but once seen, will stay with its viewers forever. In French, the phrase la jetée denotes “a pier,” and it is one man’s childhood memory of standing on a pier, watching planes take off, that forms the linchpin of this sf …