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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Review of Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WINDUP GIRL
I’ve read a couple of Paolo Bacigalupi’s short stories, which I enjoyed, and was intrigued by the praised heaped on his first novel,The Windup Girl, a science fiction novel taking place in a future Thailand where petroleum is long gone … Continue reading
iPad preorders
Apple’s iPad was available for preorder this past Friday and racked up more than 50,000 in two hours. As much as I want one of these (and I do), I did not preorder one. Yet. With my wife laid off … Continue reading
Astronomy picture of the day
The gorgeous image below is of Centaurus A, a galaxy 11 million light years away that is the result of a collision between two spiral galaxies. Click on the image for the full-sized version.
Review of Scott Lynch’s RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES
Hell yeah! That’s what I felt like shouting every couple of pages while reading Scott Lynch’s follow-up to his tour-de-force debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, which I reviewed here. If you haven’t read the first one yet, skip … Continue reading
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Why writing made me a clean freak
Well, okay, not really. I was a clean freak before I was a writer. But not much before. Both seemed to have started uncoiling from my DNA at some point in high school. And now that I’m thinking about it, … Continue reading
TRON LEGACY trailer
TRON was a little-seen Disney movie from 1982 that starred Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner. Both were computer programmers who at one time worked for a big company called ENCOM. Bridge’s Flynn character had been forced out by greedy corporate … Continue reading
New IRON MAN 2 trailer
Can we get a round of applause already? This thing is going to do serious coin this summer. Downey is pitch-perfect, as usual. My favorite scene is the suitcase armor. Now that is cool!
Recommend some good zombie books
I was on Twitter recently and said that I thought zombies worked better in movies or shorter works of fiction than they do in novels. To me, there doesn’t seem enough for zombies to do to have them be the … Continue reading
Trailer for “Get Him To The Greek”
“If he wants the candy in the jar, you put the candy in the jar.” Oh, that is so, so wrong, but still hilariously right. The adrenalin scene is great, too. “I’m alive!” I hadn’t even heard the title of … Continue reading
