As I’m sitting here, thinking about what to rustle up for my next “big” posting, I’m listening to a very good album by The Cult - Pure Cult: The Singles 1984-1995. It’s a cracking album, pretty much the best material released by the band, with the exception of some of their best album tracks, such [...]
A while back I talked about the Sci-Fi Channel’s excellent Dune mini-series, and said how much I enjoyed it. Well, tonight, we watched the first part of the three-part DVD release of the sequel mini-series, The Children of Dune.
The verdict? So far so good. This first part moves a few years ahead to a point [...]
Someone once said (I think it was Isaac Asimov) that the Golden Age of SF was when we were twelve years old (as opposed to the standard answer of “the few years after John W. Campbell took over at Astounding magazine”). And y’know something, he was spot on.
I remember those heady, distant days back when [...]
There was a nice article in Nature recently relating a few interesting facts about some startling hominid fossil finds in Kenya, finds which challenge some long-held views on human evolution.
There were two fossils - a broken upper jawbone and an intact skull - nothing too startling in that. But what was startling is that these [...]
I’ve been watching a few new sci-fi shows recently, specifically the pilots of the Bionic Woman and Flash Gordon remakes, and the pilot of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, a spin-off from the Terminator movies. And my opinions?
I have to say that all three were… okay… not bad to watch, but nothing special either. I was [...]
I’ve had an interesting and fruitful day at the shops. Picked up a load of DVDs, a book, and a new set of plug-in earphones.
The book is the new hardback release of the final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which a local major bookstore was selling at a 50% discount. The [...]
One of my current favourite comics is a four-part mini-series published under the Marvel Knights imprint, Silver Surfer: Requiem. The series is is written by none other than J. Michael Straczynski himself (yep, he of Babylon 5 fame), and the beautiful, painted art is by Esad Ribic, someone whom I haven’t come across before, but [...]
