The Adam Project
A few things to know up front about The Adam Project. If you don’t like time travel movies, especially ones that don’t delve much into details or deal with paradoxes with more than a throwaway line here or there, it’s not the movie for you. If you don’t like Ryan Reynolds being, well, Ryan Reynolds, it’s not the movie for you. And if you prefer movies to break new ground, turn down startling paths, subvert tropes, you won’t find that here. On the other hand,
March 31st, 2022. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m sharing my interview with a writer, friend and mentor I’ve known and admired for years.
As a writer, editor, teacher and activist, Marta Randall has a long and influential career in the SFF world. A leading voice in the New Wave movement, Randall saw her 1976 novel Islands nominated for a Nebula. She went on to write several novels, including THE KENNERIN SAGA and, most recently, Mapping Winter and The River South.
March 30th, 2022. Marion Deeds | Marta Randall | Author Interviews, Giveaway! | 8 comments |
The Valley of Eyes Unseen by Gilbert Collins
In 1933, English author James Hilton, at age 33, released his 13th novel, entitled Lost Horizon, in which a British diplomat named Conway, along with a few others, crash-lands in Tibet and discovers the lost people of Shangri-La. In the lamasery there, the process of aging had slowed down considerably, and indeed, the High Lama was ultimately revealed to be well over 200 years old! Hilton’s book was a tremendous success, was famously brought to the screen in 1937 with Ronald Colman starring as Conway,
March 30th, 2022. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Gilbert Collins | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 8 comments |
Destiny of the Dead by Kel Kade
My review of Kel Kade’s Fate of the Fallen, first in their SHROUD OF PROPHECY series, called the novel “an enjoyable if meandering invitation despite some issues.” Kade is back now with book two, Destiny of the Dead, which is similarly meandering and, honestly, a little less enjoyable, though enough of the stronger aspects remain so that I’ll still continue on to the third book. Possible spoilers for book one to follow.
March 28th, 2022. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Kel Kade | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Claudia Lee Black is an Australian actress who came to science fiction fame playing Aeryn Sun in the series Farscape. Black started her acting career in an Australian soap opera City Life, and was introduced to audiences in the USA with the role of Shazza in Pitch Black. After Farscape she worked in two Stargate series. Black has done voice work for animation and video games. Most recently she appeared as Stripe in the HBO series The Nevers.
Thanks to Paul Connelly for this update from last week!
March 23rd, 2022. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 6 comments |
Winter (2015) is the fourth and final novel in Marissa Meyer’s LUNAR CHRONICLES series for young adults. You need to read the first three novels, Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress first. There will be some spoilers for those previous stories in this review.
Winter, which is loosely based on the Snow White fairytale,
March 21st, 2022. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Marissa Meyer | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
This week, Batman, because of the new movie. I liked it! Maybe not as polished a plot as we’ve seen before, but deliciously vibey.
Batman: Field report for March: Crime appreciably down during St. Patrick’s Day. Lacking any Irish-themed villain, I feel that the rest of my rogues’ gallery assumes that the day must be someone else’s turf and does not turn up. Very gratifying. I suppose there’s always Calendar Man, but no one really seems to care about Calendar Man. Spent most of the night trying to find crime amidst shrieks of drunk college students and blaring Dropkick Murphys songs.
March 20th, 2022. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | no comments |
Inheritors of Power by Juliette Wade
“…A single executive, when chosen by vote of the general population, is not at all the same as a king.”
Inheritors of Power (2022) is like a magic trick, exploding everything I thought I understood about the Varin society from the first two books in the BROKEN TRUST series. I had assumed that the political system in place in Varin’s underground cities had started off basically good and jiggled off-track over time. With Book Three, I have to re-examine that conclusion,
March 18th, 2022. Marion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Juliette Wade | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
I confess it’s been hard for me to escape from the world lately, whether via reading, my own writing, work, or just the mundanity of everyday life (hard, for instance, to read social media from people in my town upset about lacking power for two days after a recent windstorm, given events elsewhere). So when it came time to come up with another St. Patrick’s Day post and prompt, the usual lightheartedness (Pubs! Shamrocks! Snakes!) of prior posts felt a little off-tune.
One of my earlier posts noted how I often think of one of my favorite poets around this time — William Butler Yeats — and went on to springboard off of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
But peace has not been “dropping slow” of late,
March 17th, 2022. Bill Capossere | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12 comments |
This book made no sense to me at all. I was hoping for some explanations at the end but it…
Oh, Marion, you say "but dark" as if it were a bad thing! 😂
Hammer Studios is... reborn? I only ever read the "Kane" stories, which I found good but dark. It's a little…
Oh...and the men used the name "The Great Northern Expedition" to throw people off as to their actual destination, even…
Oh, it IS, Marion! It is!