Posted in Doc Smith, Movies, Sci-Fi on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Ron Howard in Talks for the Lensman Series
Huh, not sure how I feel about this, but chances of it happening are still pretty slim anyway. They’d have to write pretty much all new dialogue, that’s for damn sure… but would that ruin the charm?
Posted in Rants, Sci-Fi, Verne on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
(I found these great pictures at The Annotated Jules Verne, a website that collects lots of beautiful and fun old artwork from Verne’s works. There’s a ton of stuff there, and I highly recommend browsing it.)
I hate translation problems. Part of this probably comes from growing up the son of a film buff (and a [...]
Posted in Horror, Reviews, Sci-Fi on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know it’s been covered, but I felt that I should say a little something about I Am Legend, which I just read (and which only takes a few days to breeze through, at the longest).
I first heard of the story, and its bizarre title, when some of the new version was filmed outside my [...]
Posted in Comics, Reviews, Sci-Fi on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned recently, the bulk of what I’ve been reading recently has been comic books. I’ve always been a fan, but something about the medium is especially pleasing when the rest of my time is spent reading scholarly texts for school (although I do enjoy those). I actually just gave up on the book [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I have made no secret of my great love for the works of E. E. “Doc” Smith. I am currently one book away from finishing his classic Lensman series, and still can’t get over the wonderful way that he merges incredibly cool and imaginative ideas, exciting storytelling, immense grandeur, and extremely fun corniness.
So I was [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Reviews, Sci-Fi on September 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Hey everyone, I’m back-ish. My time for personal reading has gone down considerably during the last few weeks (thankfully, however, I’ve been reading some pretty cool stuff for school: expect a write-up of the Sundiata epic soon) but I’ve managed to get it in where I can. For example, I just recently finished up the [...]
Posted in Comics, Sci-Fi on August 15, 2007 | No Comments »
The fine folks over at Bookgasm have just recently made me aware of the MOST INCREDIBLE BOOK EVER.
Every new tidbit learned about the strange works of Fletcher Hanks does nothing but get me more excited about reading I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets. Just look at some of the examples given in the above [...]
Posted in Reviews, Sci-Fi on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The last time I’ll use this picture… maybe.
I have a hard time believing it, but as far as I’ve seen I’m the only reviewer so far to note the strong diasporic bent in Tobias S. Buckell’s new novel Ragamuffin (the first third of which can be read for free right here). In the [...]
Posted in Baron, Comics, Reviews, Sci-Fi on July 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Originally, I envisioned myself lending a good deal of blog coverage to comic books as well as more conventional novels–and not using terms like “graphic novel” or, even worse, “sequential art” either. I’m talking about comic books. I ended up avoiding it because the bulk of comics I read are really out of dedication to [...]
Posted in Administrative, Sci-Fi on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
A little under two years ago I bought a magical little tome for a mere two dollars, purely on the strength of its cover. It seemed to be just about the most cliche sci-fi cover in the history of ever: a ship, ray guns, the title Invaders From Rigel, and to top it off, actual [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
… three months, and four days since the emancipation of humanity. And for most, it did them little good.”
Now that’s an opening. After all, it isn’t a space opera without SCALE (as Doc Smith would put it).
I’ve already gone on a bit about my experiences in getting myself a copy of Tobias S. Buckell’s second [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am finally about to get my ever-so-grubby little hands on Tobias S. Buckell’s Ragamuffin–I’ve already discussed my driving desire to have this book, and why that desire was faced with a temporary roadblock, so understand that I am overjoyed. This is like a second Christmas. Or perhaps first Christmas, since June comes before December… [...]
Posted in Sci-Fi on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t buy genuinely new books very often, and I pretty much never feel like I have to go out and grab one on the day of its release… but Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell was an exception.
Unfortunately, I could not find it in a bookstore the day it came out… I guess I assumed [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Having just finished reading Gray Lensman today (I already used its cover in my last post on the subject, so here’s Galactic Patrol instead) I felt the urge to share a certain thought that’s been running through my head since fairly early in the Lensman series.
Maybe this kind of musing is better left to the [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I must admit that I’m a relative newcomer to science fiction (not on purpose, Lord knows, it just somehow happened that way) so when I just recently got a real start on reading the genre I decided, after becoming interested, to start at the beginning.
Not the beginning meaning Welles and Verne (although I have already [...]
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