Roger Ebert used to talk about how important emotional response was to him as a critic, often more important than the technical and artistic merits. Even the most technically and artistically exquisite film could be a hollow and unsatisfying experience if he didn’t connect emotionally, and the opposite could also be true: sometimes, without any other explanation, a seeming piece of trash could be surprisingly fun simply because it connected to something ineffable inside him. So when the whole “Brie Larson commits white genocide against […]
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey creepy
Henry meets his wife, Clare, for the first time when he is 28 and Clare is 20. Clare meets Henry when she is 6 and he is 36. Henry is a time traveler. He tells her and she believes him. He keeps coming back over the years and Clare grows older and falls in love with him. She finally finds him in his own present, a present where he doesn’t know her yet. Boy meets girl. Boy really likes to fuck girl. Boy proposes to […]
A Sci-Fi Crime Procedural Series
So, I’ve read a handful of John Scalzi and I’ve really liked everything that I’ve read. I bought Lock In on Audible a little while ago. Then Head On was about to come out so I listened to Lock In and immediately pre-ordered Head On. I think I finished Head On, the audiobook mind you, the day after it came out. I ate lunch in my car for two days to listen to it. I played it while washing dishes. I couldn’t put it down. […]
Murderbot needs a blankie!
I was so charmed by this little novella. People (including our very own emmalita) have been giving it great reviews, but I don’t normally get very emotionally involved in shorter pieces of fiction. I was emotionally involved with this one after about fifteen pages. All Systems Red is the first novella of four (the rest set to be released by the end of the year) in the Murderbot Diaries series. Our narrator is Murderbot. He calls himself that ironically. In reality, he is a SecUnit, an […]