Summary: Kind of like the TV show Lost. You’re in a plane crash with some of your high school acquaintances. I think the premise is that you won the trip to an island paradise. Additional Comments: I didn’t like the animation style. It’s too much like a cartoon. For some reason, none of the side…
Summary: Two brothers get orphaned when the world’s suddenly taken over by aliens. One supposedly dies a hero in the early days of resistance. The other, just goes about his business in a factory sorting old pictures from data cards. He wants out of Chicago, but he’s trapped, like everybody else. John Goodman plays a…
Instead of creating a list for each individual story, I decided to try for key moments throughout the series as a whole.
Narrated by Meg Price Summary: A mix of a fantasy and a low-speed chase story. Angela Cagle tries to keep her son safe by running away with him. Additional Comments: Don’t read the book blurb! It actually explains way too much. New cover is intriguing but makes it look like fantasy not scifi. Having heard…
* Might contain mild spoilers * Summary: The plot’s either overcomplicated or super simple. Guess that depends on your perspective. A pair of government agents start out with one mission and end up with a higher one. Additional Comments: – Okay, so this probably won’t end up on my list of “must watch endlessly on…
3/5 stars Cute but Ultimately Inane Summary: If you read the blurb after hearing the story you’ll realize that it pretty much sums up the entire plot. Henry Pash gets turned down flat by the patent office for a mysterious invention that you don’t learn about until roughly 2/3 of the book have gone…
3/5 stars Interesting Twist on Boy Learns he has Cool Gifts Summary: Sam’s dead (not a spoiler, that’s in the blurb). He goes to a place called Havona to learn the secrets of the universe. You’ll have to forgive my lack of details. I’m partly trying to avoid spoilers and it’s been a while since…
Introduction: Science fiction comes in many flavors. It’s not all aliens and spaceships. Sometimes, science that matters most. Writers who strive for near-future science fiction typically ask “what if” a lot. What’s the trick to making it realistic? Go a step further than what’s possible now. For The Dark Side of Science, the whole premise…
3/5 stars Mixed Bag Short Story Collection Summary: The stories range a bit in genre from zombie apocalypse to family drama to futuristic scifi to suspense to flat out horror. It’s a little hard to judge something like this on the whole. There are stories in here I absolutely loved, like the one with the…
3.5/5 Derelict by LJ Cohen Summary: Ro and a motley stow-away crew find trouble on a derelict ship. Additional Comments: What I Didn’t Enjoy: There’s a LOT of strong language in here, which is weird because the book otherwise seems aimed at young adults. I work with teenagers. Some of them curse, but very strong…