A recent study appears to confirm what scientists have been debating for two decades and SF writers have speculated for much more: Mars had oceans.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Countdown #51-48
Hey! Y’can’t just stop…. This is Metropolis! Stuff like this happens twice a week!
–Annoyed Cabbie, to a driver who has stopped to witness an earth-shattering event.
Following the success of their weekly series, 52, DC hopes to see lightning strike again with Countdown, which maps out the new DCU, the one changed by events from 52. Although the issues count backward from the end of that series (starting with #51), roughly a year has passed, chronicled in the mainstream DC titles.
Novel Review: The Jennifer Morgue
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.
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.