Category: Philip Jose Farmer

bookrev: The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams 3

bookrev: The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams

What could be more enjoyable than a Zombie story anthology? How about enjoying one during and after Hurricane Ike, with no power and candlelight?? How about one that includes three of my all-time fav...

Booksigning: me and Bob Flynn at Trinity U October 11 0

Booksigning: me and Bob Flynn at Trinity U October 11

With all of the IKE enjoyment and challenges, I’d almost forgotten to post a notice that my friend and teacher Robert Flynn and I (and several others) will be signing our books at Trinity...

Our unofficial rating of the 2008 Super Hero flicks 0

Our unofficial rating of the 2008 Super Hero flicks

We’ll update once Batman hits the screen, but the arguments have gotten spirited and somewhat philosophical about the rating of the rash of Super Hero flicks this summer. Therefore, to at least get to...

bookrev: Chaos and Order: The Gap into Madness by Stephen R. Donaldson 0

bookrev: Chaos and Order: The Gap into Madness by Stephen R. Donaldson

Book 4 of The Gap Cycle In every space opera series, there must be action; there must be space battles; there must be high drama and adventure. As far as Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap...

bookrev: A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power by Stephen R. Donaldson 1

bookrev: A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power by Stephen R. Donaldson

Book 3 of The Gap Cycle  The classification of “space opera”can be interpreted in many ways: a soap opera in space; large-scale adventures in space whose outcome is global (or space wide) in affect;...

bookrev: Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap into Vision by Stephen R. Donaldson 0

bookrev: Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap into Vision by Stephen R. Donaldson

Book 2 of The Gap Cycle  Forbidden Knowledge is the second book in Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Gap Cycle (the Gap referring to faster-than-light drives jumping the gap). As promised in Donaldson’s author’s note...

bookrev: The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict by Stephen R. Donaldson 6

bookrev: The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict by Stephen R. Donaldson

Book 1 of The Gap Cycle  I thoroughly enjoyed The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (and the Second Chronicles as well) by Mr. Donaldson,  about Thomas Covenant, leper and unbeliever. I’d pick up this book,...

Die Hard gets me charged up for Indy 0

Die Hard gets me charged up for Indy

What could possibly increase the hype in anticipation of a 65-year old Harrison Ford reprising his role as Indiana Jones? Some critics are saying he is too old to play the Indiana Jones roll...

Guest Review of “Sands of Oblivion” at SFSignal.com 0

Guest Review of “Sands of Oblivion” at SFSignal.com

Those wonderful boys at SFSignal.com had a contest to giveaway a movie called Sands of Oblivion, with Serenity stars Adam Baldwin and Morena Baccarin and somehow I won a copy. They posted a guest...

movrev: Stargate – The Ark of Truth 0

movrev: Stargate – The Ark of Truth

My son and I have watched every single Stargate episode (and have all the season except the last one) and my wife is not far behind. We are LARGE fans. But, lately, the show...