OK I’ll admit it. I’ve never read Bob’s sci-fi stories, even though we’re in a writing group together & I consider him a friend. However, I’m remedying this by starting with The Dust of Stars. This is the first in a series, so if I really like it, there are others I can snag to…
I’ve recently found some streaming channels (contained on something called Frndly TV for $6 a month) that show classic sci-fi shows like Star Trek. Of course, I’ve seen every episode of TOS and TNG so often I can usually quote lines along with the actors, but they’re fun to listen to as I work on…
I’ve started the Thunder and Lightning series (Red Thunder, Red Lightning, Rolling Thunder, and Dark Lightning) by John Varley. So far, I’m enjoying the read. It does remind me of Robert Heinlein, as advertised, with most of the emphasis on character development and teenagers coming into maturity. In the first book, an eccentric Cajun backwoodsman…
OK I have finished reading the trilogy that I started a while ago. I don’t usually bother reviewing anything on the website but in this case, I’m going to make an exception. I have given all 3 books a 5-star rating on Goodreads & Amazon. I didn’t bother with a review because the author already…
This is an old Robert Heinlein novel I haven’t seen in ages (and didn’t remember much of what I saw back then, to be honest) so I’m revisiting it. I have to say it’s not one of Heinlein’s best stories – there’s a lot of discussion about his favorite topics (sex & the place of…
I’m not quite finished with the novel yet, but I can already say I will be reading more from Andy Weir. Project: Hail Mary explores the mind of a science nerd in a way I’ve not read since I was a child. I love how both characters in the book are so excited by simple…
A friend recommended this book to me. The author is Matt Haig and I would classify it as almost science-fiction or fantasy. We start our story with a miserable heroine who has failed at almost literally everything she has attempted. At the beginning of the book, she loses her dead-end job at a not-very-thriving music…
I recently discovered that the Japanese have turned one of my favorite Robert Heinlein stories into a movie. The Door Into Summer, if you haven’t read it, is a classic hard-scifi story with robots, time travel, cold sleep, romance, betrayal… and a cat. The hero, Daniel Boone Davis (in the movie he’s Soichiro Takakura), is…
I recently asked ChatGPT to fill me in on the latest AI technologies. Here’s what it suggested: With all these new technologies, will it be long before we have an actual working artificial intelligence that knows it’s intelligent? In other words, a sentient machine? I’m waiting to see what happens…
I’ve recently subscribed to a “TV” streaming service (it has a lot of well-known channels like Hallmark, INSP, METV, etc) and have found a channel that shows old Star Trek episodes (TOS is The Original Series for you non-Trekkers out there!). Of course, as you’d expect from a show from nearly 60 years ago, the…