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		<title>Book Review: Old Man&#8217;s War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Scalzi&#8217;s 2005 sci-fi/war novel &#8220;Old Man&#8217;s War&#8221; made news recently when it was optioned by Paramount Studios, with director Wolfgang Petersen (&#8220;The Perfect Storm&#8221;) attached to direct. While it has shades of Joe Haldeman&#8217;s &#8220;The Forever War&#8221;, Scalzi&#8217;s novel is, for the most part, a wholly original work that will both intrigue and entertainment with its fictional, but very well-realized future. In the far future, our hero, John Perry, is 75 and retired; the love of his life, his wife Kathy, is dead, and he&#8217;s very lonely. Without much of a future left, he signs up to join the Army. Well, not really the Army, but the space army, if you will. The Colonial Defense Force, which exists entirely offworld, hidden away from Earth&#8217;s populace. Everyone knows that the CDF exists, that its singular goal is the advancement of the human species at all costs, and most important for men like Perry, the CDF have incredible technology, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Star Wars &#8212; Millennium Falcon 3D Owner&#8217;s Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how cool it was to be a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; fan in the late 90&#8242;s, that gloriously heady period between 1997 and 1999? Between the special editions raking in cash hand over fist in theaters and the flood of anticipation over the new film, fans who had over a decade of famine suddenly had more than they ever dreamed of. That all vanished like the morning dew at first light when &#8220;Episode 1&#8243; unspooled, and fandom spent the remainder of the summer taking anti-depressant and making frequent calls to the local suicide hot line. There really hasn&#8217;t been any product that captured the quicksilver sparkle of that period, but the &#8220;Millennium Falcon 3D Owner&#8217;s Manual&#8221; comes pretty close. Granted, it&#8217;s a coffee table book with no actual plot or characters to speak of. But it&#8217;s an elaborately done piece of work, creatively constructed with everything you&#8217;ll ever need to know about everyone&#8217;s favorite Corellian starship. The writing by Ryder Williams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: All You Need is Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a lot of ways, Hiroshi Sakurazaka&#8217;s &#8220;All You Need is Kill&#8221; reminded me of John Steakley&#8217;s &#8220;Armor&#8221;, one of the very first sci-fi novels I ever picked up (completely on a whim, natch), and ended up enjoying the hell out of. There is a lot of &#8220;Armor&#8221; in &#8220;Kill&#8221;, in that both books deal with futuristic warriors in, essentially, personal &#8220;mecha&#8221; suits (in &#8220;Kill&#8221; they are called &#8220;Jackets&#8221;, but they&#8217;re essentially the same things), and the enemy is, quite literally, an alien infestation that refuses to yield, negotiate, or indeed, communicate. The difference? &#8220;All You Need is Kill&#8217;s&#8221; big detour is that it&#8217;s also a time-travel movie of sorts, a &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221; with sci-fi war action, if you will. The first 100 pages of the novel is told from the first-person point of view of the young, fresh-out-of-high-school Keiji Kiriya, a Japanese recruit in the UDF &#8212; United Defense Force &#8212; fighting back the alien infestation known as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Celebration of Fan Love &#8212; Firefly: Still Flying Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dedpool</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a fan of Joss Whedon&#8217;s sci-fi space western, &#8220;Firefly&#8221; and the follow up movie &#8220;Serenity,&#8221; but I am by no means a &#8220;Browncoat.&#8221; That is the preferred name for the uber fans of the franchise that, even after cancellation and a movie to tie things up, are still rabid for more. &#8220;Firefly: Still Flying&#8221; gives them what they asked for. It&#8217;s the third companion book to the series published by Titan Books, and this time is more about the experiences, and memories of the cast, crew, and writers of the beloved series. To me the show was instantly likeable. It was superbly written, wonderfully acted, and was a nice take on the sci-fi genre. It was futuristic but not so far way from where we are and where we&#8217;re headed. It was smart, funny, and most of all fun. And the characters, I mean what&#8217;s not to love about Mal, Zoe, Wash Jayne, and the rest of the crew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emma Bull &#8211; War For The Oaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nm boliek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After delving into Life On The Border and immersing myself in such  a wonderful story I began to ponder the Urban Fantasy genre a bit more seriously, after all it has been years since  this fantasy niche showed up and now its burning up the readers charts. So I went looking to see what else might tumble from the historical annals of this  genre and got lucky - I found a copy of Emma Bull&#8217;s  The War For The Oaks. Over the years I have seen this book held aloft by all types of fantasy readers and it didn&#8217;t seem to matter if they preferred wizards to elves or unicorns to dragons &#8211; once the conversation turned to this unassuming story even the sallow wallflowers would start talking -and now I totally get it.  It has Rock n Roll, a great city setting and enough &#8220;Edge of Seventeen&#8221; characters to make daydreaming of summer nights in the middle of winter an enjoyable feeling.  Interestingly enough War for the Oaks also defined this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life on the Border &#8211; Oak and Ash and a Few Electric Guitars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nm boliek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a fan of revisiting quality books from days gone by. Sometimes I do it just because I loved the story so much that I want to reconnect with the characters again and other times I revisit to see if the story holds up. This week I was reminded of  the Borderland Series by Terri Windling, a friend of mine had stumbled upon Life on the Border and wouldn&#8217;t stop talking about it. This of course prompted me to go dig it out and read it again.  Now I could write volumes about Life on the Border but it&#8217;s not necessary. If you look it up on the Internet you will find so much information out there that you&#8217;ll need water wings to stay afloat &#8211; tons of people have written about this book and the series it hails from. At one time it was so fresh and bright that it literally blinded everyone that cracked its covers and well, I guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beggars in Spain &#8230; Permanent Insomnia Anyone ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nm boliek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was going to review another movie this week but a friend of mine suggested doing something new and different, he suggested I try reviewing something that didn&#8217;t have pictures. I gave it a momentary thought and said ‘Sure! I don’t need art to be able to read’ so he went into his bathroom and came out with Beggars in Spain. I smiled and said ‘cool’ and he said ‘good luck genius ’.  Hey now, I’m no ‘pure read’ slacker! I can read with the best of them- I’ve got the William Gibson library, the Neal Stephenson criticals and ALL the Rudy Rucker’s and I know the answer to Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep? So don’t go taunting me with a Nancy Kress novel. No sir, I will read this book and lay to waste all reviewers that have come before me. Someone really should be in charge of me and my big mouth or one day I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Under the Dome by Stephen King</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The town of Chester&#8217;s Mill, ME is changed forever on October 21st, when an invisible force field materializes to quarantine it from the rest of humanity. Not truly a dome as the title suggests, the mysterious barrier is more like a capsule that fits exactly over the town&#8217;s borders. The &#8220;dome&#8221; is 47,000 feet high, and extends far below the town as well. Pollutants begin to gather on the barrier, eventually giving it the look of a dirty windshield as the story progresses. Near its base, the &#8220;dome&#8221; emits a low level electronic frequency that gives anyone with a pacemaker a nasty surprise when it explodes in their chest. The barrier is as strong as it is thorough, it can withstand aircraft and cars collisions; rifle shots and cruise missiles tipped with bunker buster warheads are equally ineffective. The military forms a perimeter around Chester Mills, and further cuts off the town from the rest of the world by shutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Post Apocalyptic Reading List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>endymi0n</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing tastier for the hardened Sci-Fi lover than a bracing dose of Apocalyptic literature. For me and my inner nerd, these books occupy the dual roles of entertainment and potential skill training. Like nerds everywhere, I am always on the watch for the Not-Known. If you can&#8217;t be handsome, you might as well be handy. Handy requires a nerd to be attentive to his or her due diligence with respect to studying many things post Apocalyptic. With your best interests and education in mind, please find below your reading lists for your brain hemispheres labeled fun or functionality. The first link is a super comprehensive listing that goes back all the way to 1885. The second link reviews 4 newer guides to a myriad of fictional doomsday scenarios. Will there be a test? If a Nerd isn&#8217;t ready, who will be? Big Bad List Of The Apocalypse Recent Visions of Doom]]></description>
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		<title>A Rainy Saturday Book Review: The Gone Away World By Nick Harkaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>endymi0n</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that it might not be raining wherever your iPhone&#8217;s GPS  thinks you are. That&#8217;s ok. It&#8217;s rainy here and what better can there be to do than nurse your red-haired wife back from a ghastly, cringing stomach flu whilst firing together a nice positive review on a big release Sci-Fi epic. In recent times, there&#8217;s been a couple of big pure Sci-Fi novels released onto the stacks. Anathem by Neal Stephenson and &#8220;The Gone Away World&#8221; by Nick Harkaway. I&#8217;m slugging through Anathem as we speak. It&#8217;s good. It&#8217;s dense. A review will surely come. It rains quite a lot here high up on the Atlantic Coast. You know right away that the publisher of &#8220;The Gone Away World&#8221; thought quite highly of Nick&#8217;s book because of the cover. It&#8217;s lovely pink and felty. The book is covered in a soft felt that feels great on the fingertips but has the unfortunate quality of also being extremely magnetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made (Revised 2008) Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hughes is a master at describing the &#8220;thrill of victory and the agony of defeat&#8221; that is the Hollywood movie mill. It takes a certain amount of skill to discuss a blockbuster that might have been in a way that leaves you wanting to find a way to buy the rights, get funding and shoot the damned thing yourself. The reality is people with a lot more experience, money and even enthusiasm have tried&#8230; and, in some cases, are still trying. Hughes, who also wrote Tales From Development Hell: Movie Making The Hard Way, does a masterful job of getting you right in the middle of all the fuss in his recently updated and re-released book The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made from Titan Books. From the Foreword by legendary artist H.R. Giger (complete with several paragraphs complaining about his involvement in several near misses) to the Afterword by Harry Knowles, founder of the website Ain’t It Cool News, [...]]]></description>
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