Geek Girl Navigating the World – My Big Weekend with Buck Rogers
There has to be some background for this column, or at least a little bit of story, just so readers can understand why I would be so excited about a particular book that I finally found in my favorite used bookstore a couple of weeks ago. This whole thing really starts back when I was [...]
Brave New Worlds: An Anthology of Dystopian Fiction – review
Attention short story admirers and science fiction lovers of all ages; have I got a book for you. Before I get to the details however, I think I should take a moment to illuminate the uniting thread between all the marvelous shorts, bound together in the pages of Brave New Worlds: An Anthology of Dystopian [...]
Big Screen Writer for Dragonriders of Pern, Paramount Nabs Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles
We have some great news for fans of fantasy and science fiction because two of the most well-known books in each genre are making the journey to the big screen. According to Collider, screenwriter David Hayter (X2, Watchmen) will be writing the movie adaptation of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, beginning with the first [...]
The Last Man Anthology: Tales of Catastrophe, Disaster, and Woe edited by Hunter Liguore – Review
Post-apocalyptic visions of the future, natural and man-made disasters, the end of the world as we know it, plagues, alien invasions: there are so many ways to die, to snuff it, to bite the big one (insert your own favorite euphemism for death here), that it’s a wonder mankind has lasted as long as it [...]
Givin’ Up the Goodies – BookSpot Central Halloween Picks and Faves!
It’s always been a concern of mine that as a site we weren’t topical enough in terms of our timing; in short seasonal. So I gathered the BookSpot Central clique to offer our readers some Halloween recommendations. Now, as we are people, of course a simple request turns into a committee situation which at it’s [...]
