Monday, September 28th, 2009
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The classic anti-war military SciFi book seen by many as an answer to Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (the Monday book pick from Feb. 9, 2009). Haldeman claims that isn’t how he wrote it, and Robert Heinlein thought it was a damn good good book. An opinion I share.
Monday Book Pick Archive
Tags: book, Military Science Fiction, Monday Book Pick, Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Steel Dawn
The next B-Movie to honor the late Patrick Swayze, is this post-apocalyptic action flick. Good martial arts scenes in this one. Not surprising, since Swayze studied both dance and martial arts while growing up.
Friday B-Movie Archive
Tags: Friday B-Movie, Martial Arts, Movie, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Tuloriad (The Legacy of Aldenata)
by Tom Kratman with some help by John Ringo
The latest in the Posleen War series. Ya, this is supposed to be the Monday Book Pick, but I’m late with the post.
Monday Book Pick Archive.
Tags: Baen, book, John Ringo, Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
To Where Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philp Jose Farmer
This is the first book in Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld series, which includes a cast of everybody who was born and died from early proto-humans to 1985. We’re talking grand scale, epic Science Fiction here.
Monday Book Pick Archive
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Scarlett Johansson will be playing Natasha Romanoff, aka The Black Widow, in the upcoming Iron Man 2 and The Avengers movies.
This is cool strickly on the Eye Candy meter alone. She has pulled off some good action rolls before (The Island), so it could be cool in other ways too.
Tags: comic book, Iron Man, Marvel, Movie, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
A film version of “A Princess of Mars”, the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars series has been listed on IMDB since 2005.
It’s still listed as in pre-production, with the latest in release dates as 2012. There are also some cast listings. The most interesting is Willem Dafoe as the Green Martian King Tars Tarkas.
As I said before, this film could be amazingly cool or a fiasco of epic proportions. With William Dafoe on board, I’m leaning more toward amazingly cool.
If the four armed Green Martians look sufficently cool, this could be a plus toward getting David Weber & John Ringo‘s March Upcountry made into a film. That would be a good thing.
Tags: book, David Weber, ERB, John Carter, John Ringo, Mars, Movie, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Two Hawks From Earth, by Philp Jose Farmer
This classic alternate history/alternate reality book is back in print, which is a good thing. During WWII, Army Air Corps bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out of his shot up bomber and lands in a different reality, one also experiencing a world spanning war.
Monday Book Pick Archive
Ya, I know. It’s Tuesday.
Tags: Alternate History, book, Monday Book Pick, Philip Jose Farmer, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Six String Samurai
A fine B-Movie Martial Arts classic that combines Rock and Roll, post-apocalyptic SciFi, and Martial Arts. Oh ya, sprinke in a bit of Elvis Presley and Las Vegas for seasoning. It’s gritty, tounge in cheek, and very low budget. Our hero is stalked by non other than Death himself (who is the Heavy Metal counterpoint to our hero’s classic Buddy Holly style Rock and Roll).
The Friday B-Movie Archive
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Forge of the Elders, by L. Neil Smith
In world where Communism won, a team from the World Soviet, in old American Space Shuttles, go to visit an asteroid called Eris. Predictably, chaos is the result, when they find other Earthly intelligent beings, from more Libertarian realities, have gotten there first.
Monday Book Pick Archive
Tags: Alternate Universe, book, L. Neil Smith, Libertarian, Monday Book Pick, Politics, Science Fiction, SciFi
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, interviews NY Times best selling author John Ringo.
John Ringo is known for writing Military SciFi mostly, but he has also written fantasy and won an award as romance author.
The main topic is John Ringo’s book, The Last Centurion which was my Monday Book Pick for October 24, 2008.
Tags: Baen Books, interviews, John Ringo, Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction, SciFi
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