Let's Get Off This Rock Already!
An Author's Adventures in Space Travel, Science Fiction, and Worlds Beyond
Today let's welcome my buddy Eamon Minges for something very different from his usual fare: this site's first-ever guest movie review! Read about the sci-fi/horror cult classic Daybreakers below... I want to start by thanking my lifelong friend, Nic Quattromani, for allowing me to make this guest post on his blog. Nic has been very... Continue Reading →
A young lieutenant makes a desperate last stand in the depths of an alien catacomb---only to find himself somewhere very, very familiar. (Science Fiction/Horror) (Complete)
Laurence Fishburne is aboard a creepy spaceship again. This time the destination is Titan, not Neptune, and instead of an all-out horror flick, we get something much more psychological. Today's feature: the 2024 movie Slingshot. Slingshot came out on August 30. I saw it on August 31, and I'm writing this just three hours after... Continue Reading →
How to Mars is like Andy Weir's The Martian, if The Martian had been written by a humanities major instead of an engineer. It is also, not coincidentally, a better book. Now, the subject of today's review was something of a happy accident on my part. I was at my local library---the same library where... Continue Reading →
A story of family, interstellar travel, and dreams that span generations. Is it worth pouring your blood and sweat into something if you never live to see it? (Science Fiction) (Complete)
Ah, to live in the old Solar System, before our nosy little space probes pushed back the veil and revealed the other planets to be absolute shitholes. Venus was, beneath its clouds, a steamy paradise world full of lush vegetation and primordial beasts; Mars, meanwhile, was one vast desert crisscrossed by canals, pockmarked by the... Continue Reading →
Intending to deter all forms of aggression by neighboring stellar powers, the Zygaran Empire unveils a fleet of cutting-edge relativistic missiles---but things do not go according to plan. (Science Fiction) (Complete)
One afternoon in tenth grade, when I was home sick with a nasty cold, I curled up beneath some blankets and watched an old 1950s sci-fi movie about a mission to Mars. I ended up drifting in and out of consciousness through most of it. Afterwards, I only recalled bits and pieces, but the images... Continue Reading →
Happy November, everyone! I'm starting up my blog again with what is admittedly an oddball of a post. It was originally a handwritten exercise for my personal nonfiction class, until the thought occurred to me: "Hey, this is about Star Trek, and I write about Star Trek sometimes on my blog, so why not upload... Continue Reading →
Ranking the Star Trek movies is always a fraught question. Wars have started that way. You can hop onto message boards dating two decades back, and see countless battles between angry fans at the dawn of the internet---like the clash of titans when the world was young1. Their disputes still echo: is Wrath of Khan... Continue Reading →
