Archive for the ‘My thoughts’ Category
TV movies, miniseries & specials
Here’s an update to this list. Best of the best 11.22.63 Anne of Green Gables (1985) Ascension Babylon 5: In the Beginning Babylon 5: The Road Home Battlestar Galactica (2003) Devs The English The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Friends: The Reunion The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Hawkeye A Parks and Recreation Special […]
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) Modern Family Mr. Bean New Girl (the first 2 seasons) Parks and Recreation Raising Hope (the first 3 seasons) Scrubs (the […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an update to this list. Year Winner Runner Ups 2023 Barbie 65 Elemental Asteroid City Babylon 5: The Road Home Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget The Creator Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves The Flash Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. […]
Best tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 John Jackson Miller SNW: The High Country 2022 2021 David Mack ST: Coda — Oblivion’s Gate Christopher L. Bennett TOS: Living Memory Una McCormack The Autobiography of Mr. Spock Cassandra Rose Clarke […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 John Scalzi Starter Villain 2022 Ren Hutchings Under Fortunate Stars Julie E. Czerneda To Each This World Mur Lafferty Station Eternity Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t yet read any fantasy novels published in 2023. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2022 Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes Robert Jackson Bennett Lockland 2021 Claire North Notes from the Burning Age 2020 Alix E. Harrow The Once and Future […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner for the year is Margarita Montimore, for Oona Out of Order. The runner ups are Ren Hutchings for Under Fortunate Stars, Travis Baldree for Legends & Lattes, Alexander Jablokov for Carve the Sky, and Charles Yu for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. […]
Virga
Here are the novels in Karl Schroeder’s Virga series. If he writes more, I will read them. Sun of Suns 2006 -> 4.5/5 Queen of Candesce 2007 -> 4.5/5 Pirate Sun 2008 -> 4.5/5 The Sunless Countries 2009 -> 4.5/5 Ashes of Candesce 2012 -> 4.5/5
The fall of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
The KW Symphony is the symphony that I went to — I was in the habit of going to several concerts each year. They were a terrific symphony — superbly talented musicians, and conductors who created splendid programs that you wanted to hear. Just days before this season was supposed to start, the board declared […]
GalFed
Most of Phyllis Gotlieb’s novels are set in her Galaxy Federation (GalFed) universe. Here they are. Sven Dahlgren O Master Caliban! 1976 Heart of Red Iron 1989 Starcats A Judgment of Dragons 1980 -> 4.5/5 Emperor, Swords, Pentacles 1982 -> 4.5/5 The Kingdom of the Cats 1985 -> 4.5/5 Lyhhrt Flesh and Gold 1998 -> […]