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Science Fiction Friday: How Will The World End?

So this summer I read A Canticle for Leibowitz, and loved it. It is a post-apocalypic novel about the monks of St. Leibowitz who preserve the “memorabilia” of the previous (our) lost civilization, destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. The novel works its way through three different time periods as new generations grapple with the lost […]

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Science Fiction Friday: Mourning the Loss of…

…my time, first of all, for having seen Knowing (2009) and totally regretted it. I never like Nicholas Cage (except in Next which was clever), so I should have known. But is wasn’t so much the bad acting, but the totally contrived nature of the plot, attempting to pit faith against science, and then aliens […]

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Science Fiction Friday: Series Re-boot

Now that I am hoping to blog more often I would like to resurrect or re-boot an older blog series: Science Fiction Fridays. I don’t promise to write something every Friday, but I will try (and some will be updated re-posts). Science Fiction vs. Sci-Fi: So, what is the difference between Science Fiction and Sci-Fi? […]