When Stross isn’t writing some of today’s best SF, he sometimes spins tales of Bob Howard, a Mary Sue of sorts—- technogeeky secret agent in a world where events from H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction really happened. The Jennifer Morgue parodies fiction’s most famous spy while pitting Howard and associates against an eldritch horror.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Welcoming the Neighbors
We may not be alone, and if we are, we might make some new friends of our own.
Novel Review: A Telling of Stars
Thrust up on the sand, tender and bloodied as a baby, or something newly dead (328).
Caitlin Sweet‘s first novel concerns an eighteen-year-old who seeks revenge after Raiders kill her family. A Telling of Stars has a familiar premise, but it diverges from the traditional fantasy in its style and development.
Is there life on Mars? Chapter XVI
Bradbury, Bowie, Wells, Welles, J’onn J’onz, and others have been here before, but the latest analysis does suggest that Mars could have supported life at one time.
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Ride on Compressed Air
Jetsonian Flying Cars have not yet arrived, but a Compressed Air vehicle may be in your near future.
Novel Review: Pain Machine
Genre can sell a book to a built-in audience, but it can also create expectations in the reader (or even in the writer) that a particular story does not meet. Marcy Italiano‘s Pain Machine certainly could be classified as horror, but it doesn’t resemble the Stephen King School.
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Saturday Review: Hollywoodland
Released in 2006, this film has fared better as a rental. Is this account of the Death of Superman– that, is, George Reeves– worth watching?
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Scotty’s Ashes Missing, but the Terminator will be Back
There’s some uncertainty about where Jimmy Doohan’s ashes have gone. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to revive the Terminator saga.
Final Season of Battlestar Galactica
It’s official. As most fans suspected, next season will be the final one for Galactica.
52 Possible Franchises
Over at Newsarama, Grant Morrison discusses the legacy of 52, and some new directions for the DCU.
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