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Tru Calling
Tru Calling: Season 1 Tru Calling is an interesting show about Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku), a woman who can relive days in order to save the lives of …
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The Tombs of Atuan
The Tombs of Atuan After reading A Wizard of Earthsea I, of course, picked up The Tombs of Atuan, the second book in the series. Just like the first …
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A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea I last read this book when I was around 10 years old, and I know I enjoyed it then. But when A Legend of Earthsea came out on the …
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A Legend of Earthsea - on the SciFi Network
A Legend of Earthsea SciFi Channel Let me first say that I haven’t read A Wizard of Earthsea or The Tombs of Atuan since I was 10 years old or so. So, …
Book review
Crucible
Crucible by Nancy Kress When I first picked up this book and read the inside cover, I thought “I haven’t ever read the first book in this …
TV review
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
This was a bitter-sweet mini-series for me, because it appears that they really won’t be making any more episodes of this wonderful series. Without …
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Forty Signs of Rain
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson I don’t generally like books that don’t have clear cut endings. Bad guy is caught, white hats save the …
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For Us, The Living : A Comedy of Customs
For Us, the Living by Robert A. Heinlein Heinlein is one of my favorite authors. He has been for years. I would read and re-read his books no matter …
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Broken Angels
Broken Angels by Richard Morgan After I finished Altered Carbon I wanted to read every book I could find by Richard Morgan. While Broken Angels is not …
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Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan This is possibly the best pure Science Fiction book I’ve read in a long time. One of my big frustrations at U.S. …
Movie review
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Last night I had the opportunity to see a pre-screening of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Jude Law, …
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A Fistful of Sky
A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman I first read A Fistful of Sky about two years ago, when it first came out. But they fooled me with the new …
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Survival
Survival by Julie Czerneda There aren’t a lot of SciFi books about biology. So it’s interesting to read one. I first found Czerneda with her book A …
TV review
Angel: Season 1
Angel - Season One Angel is a really good show. It’s amazing that it was cancelled, but at least it’s out on DVD to watch over and over. Detective …
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Smoke and Shadows
Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff This book was not, by any means, a difficult book to read. It took about 2 days (with time off for working) and was …
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Zulu Heart
Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes Book two in the series, this is a second look into an America where Africa conquered the world, and enslaved the whites. I …
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Futurama Volume 1
Futurama Volume 1 This is a very fun 3-disc set including all 13 episodes from Futurama volume 1. If you never saw Futurama, you should seriously …
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The Morgaine Saga
The Morgaine Saga by C. J. Cherryh DANG! That’s all I can really say. This book was three books in one, but it took me about as long as it takes me to …