I’m not sure I found the slow-building tension between Casey and a protective, borderline paternalistic stranger (Michael J. Rogers) quite as convincing or compelling as just the way “We Are All Going to the World’s Fair” replicates that hypnotic algorithmic suck of the video-based web....
The Black Dahlia Murder have been improperly categorized pretty much since the beginning. They've been lumped into the deathcore and metalcore scenes despite being a melodic death metal band. Part of that reason is the late Trevor Strnad's menacing highs. The original comment:I know that the ...
They’re helped by a “spider-crab” alien. The insectoid aliens, she learns, are invaders, devolved ones, it’s true; but the other races, native to the planet, would be happy to be rid of them, and Kemp is worried they might at some point reach Earth. Not that she expects to ...
They can swivel their whiskers forwardswhilehuntingtoprovideakindofshort-rangeradar. And they can see exceptionally well in the dark thanks to a reflective surface behind the retina that bounceslight back,givingitasecondchancetohitaphotoreceptor.They see more distinct images per second than we do.Dog...
And he uses his new-found power to greatly improve his lot, while inadvertently leaving chaos behind him. (I’ve known managers like that, and they didn’t need magical powers.) Wonder Woman, of course, makes a wish too – that her long-lost love, Steve Trevor, is returned to her. ...
replacement plot hook, the threat of plague, puts the heroes in the awkward situation where everyone would have been better off if they’d just stayed home. Tomb Raiderfollows a long line of great video games turned into mediocre movies. The cinematic subgenre suffers from t...
But with Judith Merril’s Shadow on the Hearth and Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow, you have two of the best American post-nuclear war sf novels written in the first half(-ish) of last century. They should be the ones that are celebrated, not Stewart or Miller. But, no matter, we ...
Now that winter is here, I’ve been taking the bus into work. It’s great. There’s an app –everythingis apps here – and you buy a ticket on it and show the ticket to the driver. They’ll be introducing a “blippar” to read the QR code on the app’s tickets soon, but it...
Noumena, an excellent Finnish melodic death metal band (yes, thereissuch a thing as melodic death metal; it’s a known subgenre), have just released their new album,Death Walks With Me, seven years after the preceding album. I have bought it and it is very good indeed. Noumena have als...
for that matter. Different uniforms but the same old jackboots. You can only take progression so far. See earlier re female smith. Start putting too much progression in there and you put the entire genre at risk – you get Puppygate. Still it’s hardly surprising that a subgenre based on...