by G.L. Breedon | Jun 12, 2024 | Film, Science Fiction
Years ago, I wrote a blog post with my favorite ten scifi films. I thought it would be fun to update and revise that list, but in doing so I have expanded it well beyond ten. These are listed in chronological order because my brain is not good at ranking the things is...
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...
by G.L. Breedon | May 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
(Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay ) I am a heretic. At least when it comes to my appreciation of scifi and, to a lesser degree, fantasy. I find myself drawn to and appreciating many of the things that general fans of the genre disdain and disliking the things they...
by G.L. Breedon | Feb 24, 2023 | Film, Science Fiction
It’s been a while since I posted here. Life has been busy. Moving house among other things. Writing has been slower than I would like, but that is always the case. Because time is always limited, I thought I’d post something that has been sitting on my...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 6, 2022 | Fantasy, TV
This review of Amazon’s Wheel of Time TV series is terribly late. I posted a version of it on facebook months ago and in my newsletter, but I figured since the series is still getting bad reviews on Amazon from disgruntled book fans, I would add it here. I love...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Photo by Jason McCann on Unsplash 20 years ago today I woke from a nightmare dream of people running and screaming from something on the lower westside of NYC to my roommate at the time calling to tell me there had been a terrorist attack. I watched the first tower...