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News
April 2010
Avatar recently made film-making history as the highest grossing movie of all time. Unsurprisingly, it is one entertaining flick although it does blatantly borrow from other science fiction and fantasy stories. It's the visual effects that make Avatar such a treat and an absolute feast for the eyeballs.
I rediscovered 80s sci-fi a few months ago with Anne McCaffrey's The Crystal Singer. The story involves an arrogant heroine and her involvement with alien symbionts, a mysterious guild, and some vague materials engineering concepts. It's not the best story around, but I found it comfortably nostalgic nonetheless.
And finally, I've written a review of David Brin's modern classic Startide Rising. The thought of a space epic with dolphins as the main characters may make you cringe, but Brin has created a fast-paced and entertaining story that's balanced by clever writing and unique ideas - one of the best books I've read in awhile.
Oh, and here's a fun random fact to impress the other dorks in your life: An extremely rare mineral called 'unobtainium' is mentioned in both Startide Rising and Avatar.
December 2009
Ever wondered what the Star Wars characters would get up to if they were on Facebook? I'm tackling big questions like this in the new Humour secion of the website where you'll find sci-fi that is supposed to be funny (as opposed to, say, Battlefield Earth which is unfortunately not supposed to be).
There's two new reviews on the site, both for fabulous television shows. For those with a penchant for puppets and rockets, Worldslaziestbusker reviews the 1960s classic series Thunderbirds.
For those who prefer their rockets laced with more apocalyptic action than puppets can provide, there's a review for the acclaimed new version of Battlestar Galactica.
Happy holidays and hope you're all getting whatever dorky little presents you asked for this year!
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