Some stories are like favorite family vacation spots. They promise a certain kind of experience and, even though you've done it before, it doesn't diminish your enjoyment. On the contrary, the good-time guarantee is what keeps you coming back. The Netflix original series The Rain is a summer-vacation kind of story, familiar narrative territory with... Continue Reading →
Review: “Leviathan Wakes” by James S. A. Corey
After ardent recommendations from several friends, I finally read Leviathan Wakes. The initial impression validated all the praise, enthralling me with parallel storylines from two distinct perspectives. Joe Miller, a detective on the crime-riddled Ceres outpost, gets assigned a missing persons case that’s more complex than it seems. His early chapters read like Raymond Chandler... Continue Reading →
Lost (Interest) in Space: Two Sci-Fi Fans Watch Syfy’s “Dark Matter”
My Laddie and I both adore science fiction, so when the new series Dark Matter appeared in our Netflix queue, it caught our attention. A cursory review of Amazon showed high ratings. While we don't expect anything will ever fill the void Firefly left in our nerdy hearts, we decided to give the pilot episode a... Continue Reading →