SF & fantasy TV shows
Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 5 5 4.86 Angel 5 5 5 5 5 5 Babylon 5 4.5 5 5 5 4.5 4.8 Battlestar Galactica 5 5 5 5 […]
SF & fantasy collections & anthologies
Here’s an update to this list. Collections Best of the best I, Robot – Isaac Asimov Nightfall – Isaac Asimov Virtual Unrealities – Alfred Bester The Golden Apples of the Sun – Ray Bradbury Keeper of Dreams – Orson Scott Card Maps in a Mirror – Orson Scott Card Exhalation – Ted Chiang Stories of […]
Fantasy novels
Here’s an update to this list. It still only includes books I reviewed on my blog (ie. ones I’ve read in the last 9 years). Best of the best Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin Replay by Ken Grimwood How to Stop Time by Matt Haig Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay Lord of […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an update to this list. 2020 was a bad year for many things, including the number of fantasy and science fiction movies released. Hopefully we’ll see more this year, if they can be made safely. Year Winner Runner Ups 2020 Palm Springs Bill & Ted Face the Music The Willoughbys 2019 Avengers: […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2020 Robert Jackson Bennett Shorefall 2019 Claire North The Pursuit of William Abbey 2018 Matt Haig How to Stop Time Robert Jackson Bennett Foundryside Kate Morton The Clockmaker’s Daughter 2017 Neal […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Sue Burke for Semiosis. Runner ups are Dennis E. Taylor for We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone for This Is How You Lose the Time War, and John Gregory Betancourt for Star Trek: TNG — Double Helix: Infection. […]
River of Stars
{5/5} “They didn’t execute out-of-favour civil servants in the Twelfth Dynasty of Kitai under the Emperor Wenzong. That, he thought wryly, would have been barbaric, and theirs was an emperor of exquisite cultivation. They just sent members of the disgraced faction away, sometimes so far that their ghosts couldn’t even return to threaten anyone.” River […]
11.22.63
{5/5} “The past doesn’t want to be changed. There are times when you feel it push back.” 11.22.63, aired in 2016 Jake is a teacher who’s just gotten a divorce. His friend Al, who owns a diner, shows him something astonishing — a portal to 1960. Al, who now has cancer, wants Jake to take […]
Classic vs. modern: SF & fantasy movies
Here are the best 20 SF movies from the classics (up to 2000) and the best from the modern period (2001+). Classic Modern 12 Monkeys The Adjustment Bureau 2001: A Space Odyssey Arrival Aliens Batman Begins Back to the Future Cloud Atlas Back to the Future Part III Donnie Darko Blade Runner Edge of Tomorrow […]
Classic vs. modern: SF & fantasy novels
It’s nearly impossible to come up with the best 20 SF novels — but 40 is doable. I thought it might be interesting to split them into 2 groups, old vs. new. Here are the best 20 SF novels from the classics (up to 1990) and the best from the modern period (1991+). Classic Modern […]