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An Author's Adventures in Space Travel, Science Fiction, and Worlds Beyond
This past summer, the sci-fi/horror cult classic Event Horizon got its first official tie-in comic: Event Horizon: Dark Descent. Regular readers may have seen the sneak peek I shared back in June. As of November 2, two issues are out, with three more on the way. Are they a promising start for an Event Horizon... Continue Reading →
Today we continue our Star Trek adventures with the ninth entry in the series. Picard and crew are back, along with their snazzy new spaceship, the Enterprise-E, that was specially designed for the big screen. This is one of the odd-numbered Star Trek movies, with a reputation to suit; fans generally view it as mediocre,... Continue Reading →
When we last saw the Next Generation crew on the big screen, they took over from Captain Kirk with an awkward, confused, ultimately anticlimactic passing of the torch. Not the film debut they deserved. Thankfully, the next movie got things on the right track again—and boy is it a movie. It's got action! It's got... Continue Reading →
You find the darndest things in the back catalog of Amazon Prime. One of those darndest things is the 1980 feature Saturn 3—a film that tried to ride the wave of late-'70s sci-fi (Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture) by deploying ambitious effects, A-list actors, and a dizzily imaginative script. It did not... Continue Reading →
A thousand years after the collapse and rebirth of civilization, the General of the Armies of Eurasia accompanies her Emperor on a hunting trip. (Science Fiction) (Incomplete)
Anyone who has worked retail knows that the customer is often wrong. By extension, the market is often wrong. Nowhere is that truer than at the box office, where a copy-paste rehash can rake in billions if it pushes the right buttons, while audiences turn up their noses at works of genuine beauty and creativity.... Continue Reading →
Event Horizon has long held a special place in my heart, and in my nightmares. Few other films have frightened me quite the way that one did, when I first watched it as an impressionable teenager, and to this day I list it among my very favorite horror movies. Some of you may recall the... Continue Reading →
The hiatus is finally over---and I'm starting things up again with some very big news. You may remember the novel I've teased on and off over the past year. I'm pleased to report that, after many delays, I can finally tell you what it's about. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you: Pathfinders. Fans of deep-space... Continue Reading →
At long last, we return to the Star Trek franchise. For today's post we're going to follow up from my review of The Undiscovered Country with the next installment in the series. This is a deeply uneven film that attempted, with some success, to pass the baton from the Original Series crew to the cast... Continue Reading →
I've always been one for spooky spaceship stories. And while there are some terrific deep-space horror movies out there, I've had a much harder time finding a book that fits the bill---for whatever reason, it's a subgenre with relatively little presence in print sci-fi. So you can imagine I was intrigued when I found an... Continue Reading →
