Zombies are the topic of the day with Radio Active #30, which features a review of Stephen King’s zombie-novel Cell and Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week song “Re Your Brains”. Sites of Note looks at Joss Whedon’s Serenity re-done in[…]
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Off the Bookshelf: Analog’s June Issue, King’s Cell, Hard SF Renaissance, Google Hacks
My resurrected reading habit picked up in April, allowing me to tear through Analog’s June issue and make another serious dent in the Hard SF Renaissance anthology, while a trip to New Hampshire to visit my sister for Easter gave[…]
Read moreRadio Active #12: Good News Everybody! KOTOR II, From a Buick 8, SciFi Podcasters
Good news abounds in Radio Active #12, which includes an announcement about a change in my day job that will let me walk to work. Really. It’s also got an announcement about the Atomic Swindlers contest winners and the happy[…]
Read moreRadio Active #4: Dreamcatcher, Finding Serenity, KODT #100 and a Geek Dad on the Xbox
Radio Active #4 reviews Stephen King’s alien invasion novel Dreamcatcher and the movie adaptation, discusses the new essay collection Finding Serenity, about Joss Whedon’s Firefly series, talks about Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine #100. finally offers some thoughts on gaming[…]
Read moreWhat I’m Reading Now, September 2004 edition
Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass: My audio book selection this month returns to the past of Roland the Gunslinger, before he went west on his titanic quest to hunt down the Man in Black. It’s a tragic tale that[…]
Read moreThe Gunslinger Revisited
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” That’s one of the great opening lines in speculative fiction — or hell, any kind of fiction. It immediately evokes mystery, drama, adventure and an entire Old West[…]
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