Tag: science fiction
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson – A Book Review
As you know, I’m honored to be a teacher by day. An esteemed student recommended this book to my class, and he made it sound so exciting, so imaginative, and so flat-out fun that we all wanted to read it. I ran to my local library and picked up a copy as soon as I could.…
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The Book Of Strange New Things by Michel Faber – A Book Review
A friend recommended The Book Of Strange New Things to me a while back, so when I saw a beautiful hardcover edition in the severe discount bin at my local grocery store, I swept it up without hesitation. (I’m still trying to figure out why it ended up in a discount bin at my grocery…
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Arrival – A Movie Review
I could keep this review pretty simple by saying this is one of the best movies I’ve seen in quite some time and it also brought me to tears. Not enough for you? Okay, I’ll keep going. The premise of Arrival is that twelve alien ships have arrived across the planet’s surface. The ships are…
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Patience by Daniel Clowey
I have to admit that when NPR recommended this graphic novel, it did not seem to be something I’d enjoy. If I’m being completely honest, I judged it by the cover, and the cover did not speak to me. However, I found myself in a situation in which I had nothing else available to read,…
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Star Wars: Ahsoka by EK Johnston – A Book Review
Perhaps the greatest Star Wars character to never actually appear in one of the films, Ahsoka Tano broke out during the animated Clone Wars series. If you’re unfamiliar with her, she once served as Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan. She and Anakin had an incredible bond, and when she left the Jedi Order, it broke Anakin’s heart.…
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Black Science: The Beginner’s Guide To Entropy by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera – A Book Review
This beautiful hardcover collects issues 1-16 of the Black Science comic book series. You may remember I reviewed a collected edition of Black Science encompassing issues 1-6 back in 2014. At the time, I loved the art, I loved the concept, I loved the colors, I just didn’t love the characters – I never felt…
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Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Gray – A Book Review
Written by Claudia Gray, I hoped Bloodline would equal or even surpass her wonderfully engaging Star Wars book entitled Lost Stars. I’m sorry to say that it didn’t. Bloodline is good, but it’s not great. It features a forty-something Senator Leia Organa. She is nearing the end of her career as a senator, and happily…
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Star Wars: Vader Down – A Book Review
This is probably the coolest Darth Vader story I’ve ever experienced, and that’s no small statement. The first crossover between Marvel’s Darth Vader and Star Wars comic book series, Vader Down collects the entire tale as Darth Vader crash lands on the Rebel Alliance’s new planetary base. He hunts Luke Skywalker, the boy who humiliated…
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Arcadia by Iain Pears – A Book Review
Know from the onset that this is a book you will need to read twice. That’s not a bad thing, though. Arcadia is so full of plot, so rich in its complexities, so perfectly executed, that I actually look forward to reading it again! Describing Arcadia is no easy task. It takes place simultaneously in…
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