Category: Reviews

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Directed by Guy Ritchie and based on true historical events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare follows the story of Operation Postmaster, where the British military recruited a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.  Obviously, there have been numerous films that have adapted many true stories

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Translation State

Ann Leckie expands the universe of the Imperial Radch series (first introduced in the best-selling and Hugo-Award winning Ancillary Justice) in her latest novel Translation State. Three entirely separate lives intersect in a story about finding purpose, finding family, and finding out what it means to be human. We start with Enae Athtur; the book-jacket

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Fallout Season 1

Created by Graham Wagner, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Lisa Joy, and Jonathan Nolan, Fallout depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retro-futuristic society and a subsequent resource war. The survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as

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Kathryn Adams

2024 Hugo Awards – Three Novelettes

This year, the first two of the Hugo Novelettes I read consisted of cozy and light-hearted ways of looking at how society can treat its vulnerable members versus how it actually does. I followed those up with a story in the form of a scientific treatise that illustrates how one piece of technology can change

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Invincible Season2

Created by Robert Kirkman, Invincible Season 2 takes place one month after the events of Season 1 and follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) after the Earth-shattering betrayal from his father. Mark is trying to get his life back on track as he makes new adversaries and allies, all while trying to suppress his greatest fear:

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Saint of Bright Doors

“Your father abandoned us. We were unchosen, cast out of his eschatology. We are going to destroy your father’s cult and salt the earth where it falls.” Fetter’s mother rips off his shadow immediately after birth, and almost as immediately starts his training. He commits his first killing at age eleven (a grand-uncle on his

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Directed by Adam Wingard, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire follows up from the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong with an all-new adventure. It pits the mighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within the Hollow Earth that challenges their very existence as well as the existence of humanity.

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Kathryn Adams

2024 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy #1)

“If a civilization is not capable of keeping a book from burning then perhaps it wasn’t ready for whatever knowledge was held within.” Livira is a little girl living in a tiny, unprotected village in the dustlands. Evar Evantari is a young man who’s lived his entire life trapped in one library chamber with four

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