We rarely watch depressing movies in our house, as we find reality harsh enough. But in a recent week we viewed two Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Descendants starring my wife’s favorite (and everybody’s...
First, the plug: surf quickly, don’t walk, and vote in the Hugo Awards for SFSignal as Best Fanzine and SFSignal Podcast as Best Fancast. Information on how to vote can be found at the...
Written in 1949 (and only recently available as a Kindle eBook), Atomsk is a pyschological spy novel which takes place just after the end of World War II, when tensions between the U.S. and...
Thanks to JD at SFSignal, I am now reading Gods of Opar, an ARC of the soon to be published trilogy of Philip Jose Farmers two Opar books (Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight...
My primer on John Carter (to go along with the earlier one on Doc Savage) has bee published on SFSignal. An excerpt: With Disney’s trailers and announced March release of the movie John Carter, readers...
My review of READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline has been posted on SFSignal. An excerpt: REVIEW SUMMARY: A fast-paced story in a bleak future, where escape into virtual worlds is driven by a...
My article on how to gift Kindle ebooks, nook books and Apple App Store apps has been puslihed on the JoSara Media web site. You can use the following shortcuts to get to each...
Eric Shaw has visions, visions which ruined his promising film career in Hollywood and has damaged his marriage. Returning to Chicago, he makes documentaries about the lives of the deceased, paid for by their...
The Scholastic Book Club was a huge fetish of mine during later elementary school and middle school. Every six weeks a pulp magazine of their latest offerings would arrive. I’d check off the ones...
Originally published in 1997, The Sparrow combines some of mankind’s most basic questions into an interesting story: Are humans the only species in the Universe? And if we find another species, how do we...
