This installment of the season-long arc features some excellent moments and it does move several of the disparate plotlines closer together. Overall, however, I do not know if I will be among those who survive the Flux.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Movie Review: The Voyeurs (2021)
Star Trek: Discovery needs another episode before the next review– this week’s (somewhat disappointing) installment was too much a chapter– so here’s a review of a recent thriller. It’s not exactly our genre, but it does start with a classic suspense premise, and the plot turns on multiple applications of technology.
Doctor Who Flux Discussion: “Once, Upon Time” and “Village of the Angels”
The third and fourth episodes of the Doctor Who’s Flux features a chaotic but fairly original episode followed by one that embodies everything that has characterized this season, good and problematic.
What might be good and what, problematic, lies, of course, in the eye of the beholder.
Cover Reveal: Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories
A collection of my short fiction, old and new, will be released in March. Today the publisher unveiled the cover, with great original art by Dan Barrick.
Star Trek Discovery Review: “Kobayashi Maru”
“One cannot have all the lives one desires.”
–Saru
Discovery returns with those cool uniforms from last year, a lot of sound and fury, and an inconsistent start for a season for which many have high hopes.
Rest in Peace: Petra Mayer
Petra Mayer, NPR book editor and reviewer and long-time promoter of SF, fantasy, and comics, has died suddenly on November 13 as the result of a (probable) pulmonary embolism. She was 46.
In addition to her help promoting SF and Fantasy to a broader audience, she also worked for two years as an audio editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and she made a number of appearances at SF conventions.
Requiescat in pace.
Doctor Who: War of the Sontarans (Flux, Part 2)
The next chapter of the season-long arc arrived Sunday. It has an intriguing premise, but the results are not promising.
Gamers stage Shakespeare online
Some Fallout 76 players erected a theatre in their virtual world and staged an online production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Information may be found here (the post also references Station Eleven).
Chapelwaite Review: Last Five Episodes
The second half of Chapelwaite leaves the source material far behind as it develops an interesting and disturbing tale, but one that lacks much originality and probably should have been two or three episodes shorter.
Doctor Who Review: The Halloween Apocalypse
Doctor Who returns, with a Halloween Special that hands out Part One of a longer story, brings together friends and foes old and new, and doesn’t reference the recent retcon/revelations regarding the Doctor’s origins.