The Undead Road by David Powers King
I’m not really a huge horror fan. I’m especially not a huge zombie fan. Films, books, television series, and games that feature them…
Tag: dystopia
Mathematics of Eternity by David M. Kelly – book review
Mathematics of Eternity is the first book in a new series by David M. Kelly. Joe Ballen is a cab driver who used…
Interstellar – film review
I’d heard good things about Interstellar over the last couple years, but I only recently got around to watching it. It tells the…
The Shannara Chronicles Season 1 – television series review
Among my friends, I’m somewhat of an anomaly. I have only read the first part of the first book in Terry Brooks’ The…
Allegiant by Veronica Roth – book review
Book Three in Veronica Roth’s Divergent series begins with Tris in jail for defying the authorities by releasing the video that explained what…
Insurgent by Veronica Roth – book review
The next volume of Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, Insurgent, begins right where Divergent ends. Tris and Four have just thwarted the plans of…
I Am Sleepless – Sim 299 by Johan Twiss
Set in the future an unknown number of years from now (or perhaps in an alternate universe), I Am Sleepless – Sim 299…
Insurgent – film review
The movie Insurgent was a slightly flawed, but solid, sequel to Divergent, with excellent special effects, strong performances by the lead actors, and…
Divergent by Veronica Roth – book review
Divergent by Veronica Roth was a good read. I definitely enjoyed it. As I detailed in my review of the movie, society in…
Space Battleship Yamato – film review
Many people grew up watching the animated Space Battleship Yamato (known as Star Blazers in the United States) on television before or after…
Divergent – film review
Soon after Mad Max was released, the 80s were filled with innumerable knock-off dystopian movies, where somehow the infrastructures of society failed in…
The Maze Runner – film review
I read The Maze Runner book shortly after it was published back in October 2009. It was very compelling and kept me interested…
Catching Fire – film review
Some people weren’t fans of the first adaption of The Hunger Games, but I rather liked it. Going into the second movie, Catching…
World War Z – film review
I don’t normally like zombie movies. I find the slow, shuffling monsters very silly. Then they eat somebody’s face, and the victim screams.…
Star-Crossed – television series review
Star-crossed usually refers to lovers whose love is doomed to failure by events out of their control. It has origins in Shakespeare and…
Short fiction review: Bugs in the Arroyo by Steven Gould
Bugs in the Arroyo by Steven Gould (author of Jumper) has an interesting premise where self-replicating bugs have decimated civilization in New Mexico…
The Host – film review
The Host, based on Stephenie Meyer’s book, was an entertaining exploration of life after the invasion where the battle for dominance is within…
The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout – book review
The Boy at the End of the World by Greg Van Eekhout is a post-apocalyptic tale from Bloomsbury about a young boy named…
Under the Dome, Season One – television series review
It seems that all Stephen King needs to to these days is scribble an idea on a napkin and option it for millions.…
Upside Down – film review
I truly enjoyed Upside Down recently on Netflix. It was just the sort of offbeat SF movie I was looking for. Written and…
Blue Into the Rip by Kev Heritage – book review
Blue Into the Rip by Kev Heritage is the first in a series of books (at least two) planned by the author. It…