Archive for the ‘My thoughts’ Category
SF & fantasy TV shows
Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 4.8 Angel 5 5 5 5 5 5 Babylon 5 4.5 5 5 5 4.5 4.8 Battlestar Galactica 5 5 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 Garfunkel and Oates The IT Crowd (the first 2 seasons) Modern Family Mr. Bean New Girl (the first 2 seasons) Parks and Recreation Raising Hope (the first 3 seasons) Scrubs (the first 8 […]
Best tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Dayton Ward DISCO: Drastic Measures James Swallow DISCO: Fear Itself 2017 David A. Goodman The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard Christopher L. Bennett TOS: The Face of the Unknown Christopher L. Bennett ENT: Rise of the Federation […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an update to this list. 2018 wasn’t quite as amazing a year for movies as 2017 but there were still a bunch of great ones. Year Winner Runner Ups 2018 A Quiet Place Ant-Man and the Wasp Avengers: Infinity War Black Panther Deadpool 2 Incredibles 2 […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Becky Chambers Record of a Spaceborn Few Karl Schroeder The Million 2017 Mur Lafferty Six Wakes Kameron Hurley The Stars Are Legion 2016 Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds The Medusa Chronicles […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Matt Haig How to Stop Time 2017 James Alan Gardner All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault 2016 Claire North The Sudden Appearance of Hope Will McIntosh Faller 2015 Claire North Touch […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Runner ups are Matt Haig for How to Stop Time, Mur Lafferty for Six Wakes, David Marusek for Counting Heads, and David A. Goodman for The Autobiography of James T. Kirk. Year Winner […]
Mission: Impossible
Here are all the movies in this series, which stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. I’ve seen the first 5 more than once. Mission: Impossible 1996 -> 4.5/5 Mission: Impossible II 2000 -> 3.5/5 Mission: Impossible III 2006 -> 5/5 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011 -> 5/5 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015 -> […]
Washington State
I was recently in Washington State, where we made several excursions to visit scenic areas. The state is separated into a western and eastern part by the Cascade mountains. Chelan is in the eastern part. Chelan this is a city around a long lake with low mountains all around we went up a road that […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Here’s an updated version of this list. Here are my mini-reviews of the first 5 movies. Iron Man 2008 -> 4.5/5 The Incredible Hulk 2008 -> 4/5 Iron Man 2 2010 -> 4/5 Thor 2011 -> 4/5 Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 -> 4.5/5 The Avengers 2012 -> 4.5/5 Iron Man 3 2013 -> […]