Stargate Universe (season 2)
{4.5/5} “Out here on the edge of the universe who you are and what you believe is everything, so it’s up to you to decide if this is a blessing or a curse.” In “Trial and Error” Young has vivid recurring dreams about the same situation but no matter what choice he makes the ship […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
{4.5/5} “What do you propose I do about it? Do you expect the warrior caste to intimidate the local star into better behavior?” The starship Titan under the command of Captain Riker has discovered evidence that an ancient civilization had technology like the Genesis device to convert planets from lifelessness to life. Meanwhile the Gorn […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
{4.5/5} “‘In Simon Says, the losers don’t get shot in the head.’ ‘They do in the original Klingon version.’” Dr. Julian Bashir has been recruited for a dangerous mission — infiltrate the Breen and sabotage their development of the slipstream drive. His accomplice is Sarina Douglas, who works for Starfleet Intelligence — Bashir has met […]
All-time best SF & fantasy novels & stories
Locus is going to do a poll to find out what science fiction and fantasy novels and stories are the all-time best (they’ve done this a few times before but not in years). The categories are science fiction novel, fantasy novel, novella, novelette, and short story. They’re also diving the poll into 20th century (10 […]
Looper
{5/5} “‘I’m going to France.’ ‘I’m from the future. Go to China.’” Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be in 30 years. In the future a criminal organization uses time travel to dispose of people they want killed — they hire loopers in the current time to kill the people that show […]
Stargate Universe (season 1)
{4.5/5} “We can’t all be Mozarts, right? Some of us are Salieris. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I… I like Salieri.” In “Darkness” the Destiny experiences a severe loss of power — lights go out, and basically everything except life support is nonfunctional. Then the ship enters a solar system — but it’s […]
Recent SF books with big ideas
If, like me, you’re interested in science fiction novels with big ideas, you might want to check out this list from io9: 10 Recent Science Fiction Books That Are About Big Ideas I can recommend Spin, Blindsight, and The Lifecycle of Software Objects. I hadn’t heard of Feed, Wool, or Super Sad True Love Story. […]
Melancholia
{3.5/5} “The way I see it, you’re now short of a boss and a husband. Could I, in all humility, offer my services? You have the ideas. I have the head for business. We could be the perfect couple.” Justine has just been married. On the way to the reception the limousine gets stuck. At […]
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 […]
Stargate Atlantis (season 5)
{4/5} “I’m not wandering aimlessly, I’m exploring. There’s a big difference.” In “The Queen” Todd (the Wraith)’s Queen has been killed. Teyla poses as the Queen in order to convince the alliance to a plan to rid the Wraith of the need to feed on humans. In “First Contact” Daniel Jackson arrives on the station […]