Archive for the ‘My thoughts’ Category
SF & fantasy TV shows
Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 3rd Rock from the Sun 5 5 5 5 5 4.5 4.92 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 5 5 4.86 Andor 5 5 Angel 5 5 […]
TV shows
Here is an update to this list. Comedy Best of the best Arrested Development (the first 3 seasons) The Big Bang Theory Black Ops Garfunkel and Oates The IT Crowd (the first 2 seasons) A Man on the Inside Modern Family Mr. Bean New Girl (the first 2 seasons) Parks and Recreation Raising Hope (the […]
Star Trek
Here’s an update to this list. The Original Series Spock Must Die! by James Blish 1970 -> 2/5 The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre 1981 -> 4.5/5 Yesterday’s Son by A. C. Crispin 1983 -> 4.5/5 The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane 1983 -> 4/5 The Final Reflection by John M. Ford 1984 -> […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an update to this list. I didn’t watch as many movies this past year as usual, but I did watch a few more from 2023 — an astonishing year for science fiction and fantasy movies. Year Winner Runner Ups 2023 Barbie 57 Seconds Elemental 65 Asteroid City Babylon 5: […]
Best tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2024 Greg Cox TOS: Lost to Eternity Dayton Ward TNG: Pliable Truths 2023 Derek Tyler Attico The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko John Jackson Miller SNW: The High Country Dayton Ward DISCO: Somewhere to Belong 2022 […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t read any science fiction novels published in 2024 yet. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 Annalee Newitz The Terraformers Sue Burke Dual Memory Mur Lafferty Chaos Terminal Ann Leckie Translation State Robert J. Sawyer […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t yet read any fantasy novels published in 2024. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 Travis Baldree Bookshops & Bonedust James Morrow Behold the Ape 2022 Naomi Novik The Golden Enclaves Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes Robert Jackson Bennett […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Naomi Novik for A Deadly Education and its sequels, otherwise known as the Scholomance trilogy. Runner ups are Naomi Kritzer for Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Laura J. Mixon for Up Against It, Roger MacBride Allen for Caliban and its sequels, and Mickey Zucker […]
An artist whose painting I had a poster of
Albert Bierstadt was an American painter who painted a lot of landscapes from the American West in the 19th century. The painting of his that I had a poster of when I was at university is “Among The Sierra Nevada Mountains, California.” Here it is: Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (1868) He has many […]
Robot, Empire & Foundation
This is an update to this list. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is one of my favourites. I read the 7 books he wrote in the series many years ago. I’ve now reread them, plus the books that others wrote in the series. Asimov eventually connected his Foundation stories with the Galactic Empire series and the […]