Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
{4.5/5} “Ever since I sold out and got famous, we have gotten closer.” Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, released in 2024 Lydia Deetz hosts a ghost-hunter show, and one day she sees Beetlejuice in her audience for a second. Her stepmother Delia informs her that her dad was eaten by a shark after surviving a plane crash. Lydia’s […]
Beetlejuice
{4.5/5} “I’ve seen The Exorcist about 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it!” Beetlejuice, released in 1988 Adam and Lydia are looking forward to a vacation at home when they die in a car accident. When they realize they’re dead, at first they think it’s not so bad. But then […]
Radiant
{4.5/5} “I was a wet-behind-the-ears Explorer Third Class. Tut was not only more experienced than I, but he outranked me: as an Explorer Second Class, he was my superior officer. Protocol demanded that the captain address all Explorer matters to Tut, who would then bring me in if he chose. Going over Tut’s head to […]
The Road to Roswell
{4.5/5} “Where was everybody? … You couldn’t go ten miles without running into construction. She should have come across some by now. Unless every single person in New Mexico had been grabbed getting into their cars, forced to drive to the aliens’ flying saucer, and been spirited off to their home planet — and for […]
Usurpation
{4.5/5} “This is one reason why farmers call us lucky bamboo. Their crops grow better in our presence. This is also why you have heard of witchweed but have never seen it. I have a natural revulsion to parasites the same way that humans have an inborn fear of snakes.” Usurpation by Sue Burke, published […]
The Clan Chronicles: Tales From Plexis
{4.5/5} “W’harton paused. ‘I think I parse your meaning. My kin had plans for me, too. But Plexis is a mix of strange and familiar.’ He upped his head back, his rounded tongue licking the last droplets of stew from the bowl. ‘You might find a home there yet.’” (from “The Stars Do Not Dream” […]
The Wild Robot
{4.5/5} “A Rozzum always completes its task.” The Wild Robot, released in 2024 When a Rozzum robot wakes up all it wants to do is help people. But there are no people around, only animals. When it gets struck by lightning, it finds raccoons playing with a bunch of its body parts. When it finds […]
Star Trek: SNW — The Scorpius Run
{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]
To Guard Against the Dark
{4.5/5} “AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were ‘entities’ within it, Sira’d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.” To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 […]
The Gate to Futures Past
{4.5/5} “Now we know they didn’t die off. Instead, the Hoveny hid themselves so well other spacefaring species had no idea they still existed or where. And a thousand years later, a new generation sent ships like this to Cersi — and who knows where else — in what I assure you was a very […]