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 tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2020 Una McCormack PICARD: The Last Best Hope 2019 David Mack TNG: Collateral Damage Greg Cox TOS: The Antares Maelstrom Dave Galanter DISCO: Dead Endless Una McCormack DISCO: The Way to the […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2020 John Scalzi The Last Emperox Marina J. Lostetter Noumenon Ultra Robert J. Sawyer The Oppenheimer Alternative 2019 Karl Schroeder Stealing Worlds Sue Burke Interference Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Ruin 2018 Sue Burke Semiosis […]
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. […]
Star Trek: Voyager (season 5)
{5/5} “There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship… and never abandon a member of your crew.” Star Trek: Voyager season 5, aired in 1998-99 When Seven and the Doctor beam back from a nebula, Borg nanoprobes create a new drone who […]
Star Trek: The Antares Maelstrom
{4.5/5} “Grandle jumped off the counter into the fracas, landing between two furious shoppers who were doing their best to batter each other senseless. She shoved them apart, trying to keep them at arm’s length from each other. Her fierce expression would have done an ancient Greek Fury proud. ‘Get a hold of yourselves! What […]
VOY Dark Matters: Shadow of Heaven
{4.5/5} “It had been strange to be without a weapon on this planet and downright unsettling to be without a combadge. A dozen times a day he’d find himself tapping his chest, trying futilely to communicate with someone. It had gotten so that the children teased him, lifting their right hands and touching their left […]
The Mandalorian (season 2)
{4.5/5} “‘There’s no such thing as an abandoned Sarlacc pit.’ ‘There is if you eat the Sarlacc.’” The Mandalorian season 2, aired in 2020 The Mandalorian is attempting to take the child to others of its kind. In order to do that, he’s looking for other Mandalorians to help him. He hears about one on […]
VOY Dark Matters: Ghost Dance
{4/5} “The survivors were of two minds. Some thought they had displeased their gods, the Crafters, in some way and that to atone they needed to devote themselves totally toward an agrarian life. Others were angry, and wanted to be able to defend themselves should this ever happen again. The two drifted apart.” Star Trek: […]
VOY Dark Matters: Cloak and Dagger
{4.5/5} “They could probably take on the Federation with their present number of dark matter-cloaked vessels. But the Triumvirate, true to their Romulan heritage, wanted to wait until their was no risk at all. They didn’t want to fight the Federation. They wanted to sweep in with a victory so overwhelming that the round-ears wouldn’t […]