Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Network Effect by Martha Wells
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Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Summary: In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves. Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake … Continue reading Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Book Review: Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Summary: One robot's search for meaning in a world where every human is long gone. A thrilling twist on The Martian. A touching story of a search one robot's search for the answers in a world where every human is dead. The new novel from C. Robert Cargill echoes the worlds of Stephen King and … Continue reading Book Review: Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Movie Review: The World’s End
I finally managed to get around to seeing The World's End last week after coming home from my massive road trip of massiveness. The World's End is about Gary King, played wonderfully by Simon Pegg, who is perhaps more than a little broken and living in the past. In an attempt to top the best … Continue reading Movie Review: The World’s End
Pacific Rim: A Non-spoilery Review
For different reasons (former anime obsession, love of Japanese horror/monster films, an admiration for Guillermo del Toro's stylistic choices as director) the movie I've most anticipated coming out this year is Pacific Rim. For those of you that aren't geeks/nerds, or that don't follow upcoming movies at all, Pacific Rim is about giant monsters coming … Continue reading Pacific Rim: A Non-spoilery Review