• Wheee! Strip Mining the moon!

    For thousands of years young lovers looked up and found romance beneath the full moon. Now they’ll have to make do with the sarred, skid-marked face of the man in the moon staring back. enshittification on a planetray scale. Whee.

  • So uh…

    Wouldn’t that make Trump the Antichist? Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”

  • A Fresh Look

    It’s been nearly five years since I last refreshed my website. Hell, it’s been a year since my last blog post before my Interstellar review. As you can see with your own eyes, the design of this thing is much changed. Or, maybe you never saw the old place. Well, trust me. It’s a change….

  • Interstellar: Beautiful lunacy

    Lunacy – from Late Latin lunaticus “moon-struck,” from Latin luna “moon” The yearning to reach the stars runs deep in Baby Boomers like myself. We grew up with the deep, ingrained, cultural mythos that we were headed for a moon base by the end of the 1970s and, after that the planets. Beyond that, the stars. But then the…

  • Whiskey and Warfare

    “Old Woman’s War” is how I characterized Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill when someone asked me what I was reading for SPSFC4. While I found John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War sort of meh, this book feels like a more mature, more heartfelt exploration of similar ground. Given the opportunity would someone of middle age…

  • EAT

    “Night of the living furries” is how a character describes their situation a little more than midway through Jesse Brown’s EAT. I laughed when I read that line and I also nodded. That’s a good description of the basic premise, though replace cute or weirdly sexualized furries with the sleek, muscle-bound, eat-your-face-off variety. Caede wakes…

SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

E.W. Doc Parris

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