This week’s word for Wednesday is syzygy, a noun, meaning the alignment of three celestial objects (traditionally the sun, the earth and the earth’s moon). Syzygy is a good word to use if you play Hangman because of the three Ys. It is believed to be of Greek/early Latin origin.
Awards:
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(Here is a link to an article.)
Books and Writing:
Open Road Media has launched The Portalist,
October 19th, 2016. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 7 comments |
Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds
Redemption Ark (2002) is the follow-up to Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds’ debut novel and the second book in his REVELATION SPACE series of hard SF space opera in which highly-augmented human factions encounter implacable killer machines bent on exterminating sentient life. The first entry had elements of Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix, Frank Herbert’s Dune,
October 19th, 2016. Stuart Starosta´s rating: 3 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
The Last Colony, the third book in John Scalzi’s OLD MAN’S WAR series, returns us to the perspective of John Perry, the “old man” hero of the first novel in the series, Old Man’s War. John Perry is only mentioned in the second novel, The Ghost Brigades, which told the story of how the cyborg Special Forces soldiers found and defeated the scientist Charles Boutin, a traitor to the Colonial Union.
October 19th, 2016. Kat Hooper and Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | John Scalzi | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
I Spit On Your Grave directed by Meir Zarchi
One of the most notorious and controversial pictures ever released, and sporting a reputation of the very worst kind, I Spit On Your Grave is a film that I had long put off watching. Originally released in 1978 under the tamer title Day of the Woman and rereleased in 1980 with its more infamous, expectorated appellation, the film has since angered critics, incensed feminists, appalled viewers and been banned in at least a half dozen countries. But I suppose that morbid curiosity,
October 19th, 2016. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
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