Tag Archives: Science Fantasy

Vintage Science Fiction Month: Dune Reread Report

Posted on February 1, 2018 by H.P.

I read Dune for the first time one summer while I was in college way back when.  Bounced off of it hard.  So hard I never bothered to read the copy of Dune Messiah I picked up at the same … Continue reading →

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Thor: Ragnarok is fun, but let’s not get carried away

Posted on November 8, 2017 by H.P.

I swear I am going to write a short review again one day.  tl;dr version: Thor: Ragnarok is very funny at times but too uneven, sometimes veering into camp.  The visuals are gorgeous and bonkers, at least as pictures—full Jack … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: The Gondwane Epic by Lin Carter

Posted on June 29, 2017 by H.P.

The full Gondwane Epic runs six books.  Lin Carter apparently planned ten.  I have the first four chronologically—The Warrior of World’s End, The Enchantress of World’s End, The Immortal of World’s End, and The Barbarian of World’s End (there are … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vols. 4 and 5 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on May 17, 2016 by H.P.

I think I am officially over Saga.  What you see has always been what you get with Saga: inventive worldbuilding, always beautiful and often arresting art, and a thoughtful meditation on parenting and family marred by college stoner philosophizing and … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on June 23, 2015 by H.P.

Volume 3 of Saga continues the story of star-crossed lovers from enemy peoples caught in an endless, bitter war, with a step up in quality from the first two (already good) volumes. Back are ram-horned Marko and insect-winged Alana, along … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on June 22, 2015 by H.P.

Volume 2 of Saga continues the story of star-crossed lovers from enemy peoples caught in an endless, bitter war. And it is the story of their child, born at the beginning of Volume 1. When Volume 1 ended, Alana, an … Continue reading →

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Review of Saga vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on June 19, 2015 by H.P.

Taking 21st Century, Western ideals and cultural mores and simply slapping them on a speculative fiction setting is frequently decried as bad writing, but it has its place. One of the great virtues of speculative fiction, after all, is that … Continue reading →

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