Revelation Space
{4.5/5} “It was not something to which she was ever going to become totally accustomed, Volyova knew, but in recent weeks visiting the Captain had begun to take on definite tones of normality. As if visiting a cryogenically cooled corpse infected with a retarded but potentially all-consuming plague was merely one of life’s unpleasant but […]
Batman: Cacophony
{4/5} “My whole life… all of this. It’s all because I never want to see death first-hand again.” A villain who kills superheroes (those who are normal humans) is after Batman. This mysterious person only speaks the sounds of fighting like “pow” and “blam” — one might call him Onomatopoeia. He breaks the Joker out […]
Permanence
{4.5/5} “The mountains were gorgeous, all limpid shadow and fogbound majesty and she found it easy to forget her problems here. Sheer rock walls rose from the plains to ice-capped peaks, sunlit on one side during the artificial day, long shadows sloping into apparent nothingness on the other side. Half the sky was a gorgeous […]
Planet of the Apes: The Long War
{4.5/5} “Let me tell you what does make us different. The Lawgiver’s dream. The finest ape that ever lived — my friend — believed that apes and men should live in harmony. I believe in that dream. The problem is that humans don’t. Down deep each man believes that he is superior to you stinking […]
Battlestar Galactica: Complete Omnibus V.1
{5/5} “We have to be strong. They know our weaknesses. And they’ll do anything to exploit them.” The Galactica comes across a ship with humans on it asking for help. But the people on the ship can’t be who they say they are, because they’re all dead — including Zak, Commander Adama’s son. Some suspect […]
Angel & Faith 1: Live Through This
{4.5/5} “Now I get it. We get punched so many times our faces are one big bruise, so we blend in with the night. Best plan ever.” Angel and Faith are working together, helping the helpless. Angel is trying to bring you-know-who (I don’t want to spoil it if you don’t know) back from the […]
Battlefield Earth
“I really look forward to getting back home where you can walk around without a suit or mask, where the gravity gives you something to push against, where everything is a beautiful purple and there’s not one bit of this green stuff. My papa used to tell me that if I wasn’t a good Psychlo […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1: Freefall
{4.5/5} “This is what I’m talking about, Buffy. You don’t realize how the destruction of the seed affected everyone. You only think about how it affected you. All the Slayers, even the demons with magical mojo. You all got to keep your power because it was inside of you. But everyone else got cut off […]
A Fine and Private Place
{4/5} “Caring about things is much more important to the dead because it’s all they have to keep them conscious. Without it they fade, dwindle, thin to the texture of a whisper. The same thing happens to people, but nobody notices it because their bodies act as masks. The dead have no masks.” Jonathan lives […]
The Sirens of Titan
{4.5/5} “Winston Niles Rumfoord had run his private space ship right into the heart of an uncharted chrono-synclastic infundibulum two days out of Mars. Only his dog had been along. Now Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak existed as wave phenomena — apparently pulsing in a distorted spiral with its origin in the Sun […]