Everyone wants the Halo bracelet, and the various factions come into conflict. Kiera and her killer bond; Sonya Valentine goes out with a bang.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Novel Review: Mary Poppins
No kidding!
Jethro has written an original review of Mary Poppins: not the Disney confection, but the first of P. L. Travers’ eight oddball novels about the magic-using nanny. He also hopes his review will spark thoughtful discussion. What is Mary? A Time Lord? Fae? Elder God? Sauron’s love-child? We hope you’ll offer your thoughts.
Orphan Black Review: “Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done”
Maybe they told him to be dead and go live in Guadalupe. Only he’s in our freezer.
–Alison
The second last episode of the season grows tense as storylines converge, Helena pokes back, and Rachel plots. Alison and Donnie provide much-needed comic relief by disposing of a corpse.
Continuum Review: “Three Minutes to Midnight”
You never catch the Roadrunner. It can’t be done.
This week on Continuum, the cast gathers together and tries to figure out the premise of the show.
Orphan Black review: “Variable and Full of Perturbation”
He’s not at all well-wrapped!
–Alison berates her husband over his inadequate homicide concealment skills
Apparently, Orphan Black‘s creators didn’t think their show had induced enough WTF?!? responses yet.
Continuum Review: “Revolutions Per Minute”
The post-series diagrams of plots, timelines, and character alliances in this show will resemble the notepad of someone afflicted with both an obsessive-doodling disorder and hand tremors.
I mean that in the best possible sense.
Novel Review: “Ancillary Justice”
Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis’urna. Troop carriers are the most massive of the Radchaai ships, sixteen decks stacked one on top of the other. Command, Administrative, Medical, Hydroponics, Engineering, Central Access, and a deck for each decade, living and working space for my officers, whose every breath, every twitch of every muscle, was known to me (9).
This unusual first novel by Ann Leckie is clearly the most lauded SF work of the last year. Our review follows.
Newspace
In case you missed it, Space X has unveiled their Dragon V2 Spacecraft this week.
A private group contacted a probe from NASA’s past…
…and NASA itself will test a giant Martian parachute.
Medical science is using “emergency preservation and resuscitation”– you know, suspended animation— to preserve injury victims long enough to treat them. But what have they got against “science fiction” nomenclature, now that the technique is science fact?
Arctic wastes and British cosplay, below:
Orphan Black Review: ““Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things”
Please tell me your hands haven’t been soaking in some gruesomely fecund jelly.—Dr. Marion Bowles
Orphan Black delivers a weaker episode than usual, but it includes a number of important developments, a big dose of farcical comedy—and Siobhan Sadler at her badass best.
Continuum Review: “Minute of Silence”
They’re getting wise to the scam they accepted in the name of convenience.
Our cautionary SF detective series brings its key characters to a gray point, as the broadcast of the episodes in Canada and the U.S. falls closer together.