The Robots of Dawn
{4.5/5} “It was a wasteful and inefficient procedure and there are now no Earthpeople that we will allow to serve as further settlers. We have become Spacers, long-lived and healthy, and we have robots who are infinitely more versatile and flexible than those available to the human beings who originally settled our worlds. Times and […]
Run the Burbs (season 3)
{4.5/5} “You remind me of a young me, except with taller hair.” Run the Burbs season 3, aired in 2023 At a community yard sale Camille’s cookbook from her mother accidentally gets sold. Andrew accidentally takes bribes to get people’s kids into summer camp. Andrew and Camille’s doctor retires and they have trouble finding a […]
The Naked Sun
{4.5/5} “His teeth chattered when he tried to talk and he had to force his words out in little bits. It hurt his eyes to look so far at a horizon so hazy green and blue and there was only limited relief when he looked at the pathway immediately before his toes. Above all, he […]
The Caves of Steel
{4.5/5} “Before the Cities, human life on Earth wasn’t so specialized that they couldn’t break loose and start all over on a raw world. They did it thirty times. But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.” The Caves of Steel by Isaac […]
Pebble in the Sky
{4.5/5} “To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know. Yet we are no different from you of the outer worlds, only more unfortunate. We are crowded here on a world […]
The Currents of Space
{4.5/5} “There he met friends of his, who looked at him with secrecy in their eyes and who met him at work later with bland glances of indifference. He listened to what they said and found that many seemed to believe what he had been hoarding in his own mind and honestly he had thought […]
The Stars, Like Dust
{4.5/5} “Of course, someday we will beat the Tyranni. It is fairly inevitable. They can’t rule forever. No one can. They’ll grow soft and lazy. They will intermarry and lose much of their separate traditions. They will become corrupt. But it may take centuries, because history doesn’t hurry.” The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov, […]
Match Me If You Can
{4.5/5} “Everything in my life has told me that’s not enough. That I’m not enough. But I guess I never really believed it before.” Match Me If You Can, released in 2023 Kip is a software engineer, and occasionally spends her evenings pretending to be chased by zombies. One evening she has to spend her […]
The Wall Around Eden
{4.5/5} “Tunneling the Wall, disobeying the Pylon, potshots at angelbees — the only result was the whole town got put to sleep for three days. After that happened, the Town Meeting forbade any more resistance.” The Wall Around Eden by Joan Slonczewski, published in 1989 Doomsday was 20 years ago. The angelbees, or their masters, […]
Gattaca
{5/5} “If you’re going to pretend like you don’t care, don’t look up.” Gattaca, released in 1997 Vincent is on track to go into space — to Titan. But he does a lot of extra things every day that people don’t know about to ensure that happens. His DNA is genetically inferior, so he makes […]