by G.L. Breedon | Jul 6, 2011 | Science Fiction, SF & Fantasy News
This is a great news. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction will soon be available online for free. The UK based Orion Publishing will be putting it up in pieces over the next year or so. 3 million words, 12,000 entries, and they say, 100,000 links. It will cover all...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 29, 2011 | Film, Reviews, Science Fiction
My wife and I watched the Adjustment Bureau over the weekend. Although it had timid and some fuzzy edged metaphysics (I like my metaphysics a little more bold), I found that I enjoyed the film quite a bit. Partly this is due to the wonderful on screen chemistry...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 27, 2011 | Science Fiction
Sad news. Science fiction and fantasy anthology editor Martin H. Greenberg passed away Saturday, June 25th at age 70. Although I don’t read very much short science fiction or fantasy these days, I remember reading quite a few of the anthologies that Greenberg...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 24, 2011 | Books, Retro-Nostalgia, Reviews, Science Fiction
My last post about Falling Skies and got me to thinking about alien invasion stories which led me to thinking about my favorite alien invasion story of all time, The War Against the Chtorr series by David Gerrold. Interestingly the series does exactly what I...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 22, 2011 | Reviews, Science Fiction, TV
I finished watching the 2 hour premiere of Falling Skies last night. I cannot image what would entice me to come back and watch another hour. I was very hopeful as I started watching. I didn’t know much about the show except that it was another...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 10, 2011 | Books, Retro-Nostalgia, Science, Science Fiction
Every Friday when I was growing up, our family would go out for dinner. Afterward we would stop at a bookstore. My brother and I could each get one book or magazine for the week. So, once a month I excitedly searched the shelves for the latest issue of Future Life...
