by G.L. Breedon | Mar 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
As it has been so long since my last post, I thought I’d share some of the media I have been consuming. These are not ranked in any order and there are no stars. My brain does not evaluate art like that. I read the book series (Wool) this show is based on by...
by G.L. Breedon | Oct 25, 2023 | TV
The second season of Amazon Prime’s The Wheel of Time series ended a few weeks ago so I thought a short review might be in order as well as a few thoughts on the whole process of adapting fiction to TV. (Caution: There will be mild spoilers for the first two...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 20, 2023 | Science, Science Fiction, Writing-Craft
I recently watched this youtube video about how to use seven short prompts to have AI write a novel for you. It bothered me, because I feel that if you are going to do that then you need to tell people the book they are buying was really written by AI, but also...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 27, 2023 | Film, Science Fiction
I have always had an odd fascination with sci-fi films from the 1950s. More than any other decade the films of the 1950s have always seemed to epitomize the classic sci-fi story tropes: Space Travel and Exploration, Alien Invasion, Atomic Apocalypse, and Mutant...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 21, 2023 | Film, Science Fiction
I recently rewatched one of my favorite scifi films, Forbidden Planet (1956). I did not ask my wife to watch it with me as we had viewed it for one of my birthday scifi film festivals a few years ago. My wife’s enthusiasm for scifi films from the 1950s does not...