The Future Tastes Like ...

When people ask “Where do your ideas come from?” it’s easy to say “everywhere”, but sometimes it’s here, specifically. Wrapping a science fiction story around something like this is a no-brainer: Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can...

The World’s Great...

I’ve talked about the awesomeness that are the Red Letter Media reviews before, and while they’re warming up the next Star Wars review they dropped a quick Avatar review on us. Once again these reviews manage to do an excellent job of deconstructing the film while being...

Science Fiction and Fan...

Star Trek, Avatar, Moon, District 9, Best Served Cold, The Gone Away World, BattleStar Galactica, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Dark Reign, Blackest Night, Stargate Universe, and so much more. 2009 has been the year for big events in genre media of all kinds. While it would be nice to take a...

Book Review: The Windup...

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Travelling the same paths of the broken near-future as Bruce Sterling, The Windup Girl drops the reader into a struggling, but surviving Thailand as it might be 100 years from now (more or less). It’s a future where the...

The World’s Great...

I’ve been watching Red Letter Media’s Reviews for the last year or so as he’s been effectively deconstructing the Star Trek: TNG movies. His latest (and greatest) review is an extended takedown of The Phantom Menace. His style is definitely black humor with jokes about...