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When The Moon Hits Your Eye
If you love John Scalzi’s “voiciness”, this is a book for you. If you find Scalzi’s voice a little too glib, smarmy, and laced with pop-culture winks and nods—maybe not so much for you with this book. When The Moon Hits Your Eye (A title borrowed from Dean Martin’s hit That’s Amore) is the 2025 science fiction-ish book of short stories that considers the real-world implications of an absurd, nursery…
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Sic Semper Tyrannis
Thus ever to kings. These are the words Virginians put on the great seal of their Commonwealth. Look. Above those words stands Virtue, the Amazon female figure clad in a helm and carrying a spear and a sheathed sword. Her left foot holds Tyranny, a tyrant king subdued on the ground, his crown tossed asunder. In Virginia, we have no intention of living under kings. We even put it on…
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Project Hail Mary: A clinic in screen adaptations
I read Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary over a year ago and loved it. I loved The Martian and PHM had the feel of a sequel. All the elements that worked in The Martian are there—an isolated main character (Ryland Grace in PHM, Mark Watney in The Martian) with no game plan for survival up against impossible odds must “science the shit“ out of every challenge. My thoughts at the…
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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
Author, Artist, Developer