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• The Astronaut’s Wife

  Published: July 14, 2007, 9:21 pm

  Tags: Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Not Recommended, Reviews

  As a lifelong science fiction reader I’ve made some leaps before to accept a story’s premise but this is just so poorly done that I couldn’t get over it. And Depp is so blond! Maybe if he had dark hair I would have liked this. But I doubt it, a lot. not

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• Judge Dredd

  Published: July 14, 2007, 6:08 pm

  Tags: Science Fiction, Crime, Action, Recommended, Reviews

  This 1995 flick, which I watched the other day since it was on the HD On Demand list, is a fun adaptation of a longrunning British comic that works for me mainly because director Danny Cannon keeps each scene to a bare minimum (not the bangs and the booms but the dialog and length) and star Sly Stallone plays Dredd as so straight you’ll need

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• The 'struggle between Good and Evil'.

  Published: July 25, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Christianity General, Fiction And Religion, Film, Humour, Religion

  'Inside every man is a struggle between Good and Evil, which cannot be resolved.' So says Homer Simpson in an episode, 'Whacking Day', used by the Church of England as part of a new study guide for young people, published...

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• Dr Who?

  Published: July 2, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Fiction And Religion, Media

  Is there some subversive Christian working behind the scenes at Dr Who?...

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• J.K. Rowling Wept As She Finished Last Harry Potter Book

  Published: July 6, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: Childrens Fiction, Harry Potter, Jk Rowling, Harrypotter, Harry Potter, Jkrowling

  J.K. Rowling said that she cried as she wrote the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Ghastly Hallows. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling broke down in tears while writing the final book of the boy wizard's adventures, echoing the feelings of many fans as they await the end of the series. "I was in a hotel room on my own, I was sobbing my heart

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• Woohoo! New Story

  Published: June 18, 2007, 11:23 pm

  Tags: Personal, Entertainment, Magazine, Science Fiction

  For any of you short fiction fans, I've got a story in the current (August 07) issue of Realms of Fantasy Magazine. The title is "Time Tells All." Though I'm far from unbiased, I highly recommend it. The issue is on stands now, and should remain up through August 6.

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• The Birth of Traitor Tad

  Published: June 27, 2007, 6:34 pm

  Tags: Short Stories, Science Fiction Short Stories

  following is a work of fiction, as would be obvious even without this note. It is copyright © by Henry E. Neufeld, 2007] I wake up, but I don’t recognize where I am. For a moment I think I’m in the barracks back home, but there is a strange light. Slowly it begins to come back to me. I’m Captain Tad Tillman, a tank

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• Viking Warrior

  Published: June 29, 2007, 8:34 pm

  Tags: Denmark, Judson Roberts, Vikings, Teen Fiction

  can be found in the 'Teen Fiction' section of your local Barnes & Noble, although exactly WHY that is so mystifies us here at Stevereads. "Viking Warrior" features a young protagonist (teenage slave Halfdan, who circumstances not only free but arm with the great bow of the series' title), yes, but by that yardstick alone "Catcher in the Rye"

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• A Secret Edge

  Published: June 16, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Secret Edge, Gay Fiction, Coming Of Age Fiction

  Our book today is Robin Reardon's A Secret Edge, a slim and surprisingly sensual gay coming-of-age novel centering around the personal awakening of high school track star Jason Peele.When the book opens, Jason is the picture of an ordinary high school student - hanging out at the mall, doing his homework, going on awkward double dates. But

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• New England White

  Published: June 11, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: New England White, Stephen Carter, Fiction

  the dirty little secret of fiction - indeed, it's only recently come to be seen as such, to the enormous misfortune of fiction-readers everywhere. Filmy vagaries and ill-formed plots are, after all, the accepted hallmarks of all serious' fiction. If it actually makes any sense, it can't be taken seriously.So let's hear it for Professor

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• Duchess of Acquitaine

  Published: June 9, 2007, 8:56 pm

  Tags: Henry Ii, Historical Fiction, Eleanor Of Acquitaine

  Our book today is Margaret Ball's historical novel "Duchess of Acquitaine," with its charmingly chummy subtitle, 'A Novel of Eleanor' (brave, foolhardy Ball, trusting that none of her prospective readers will read the book's title, then read the subtitle and say 'who's this Eleanor chick?').The book's heroine is, of course, Eleanor of Acquitaine,

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• Bottomfeeder

  Published: June 6, 2007, 9:08 pm

  Tags: Manhattan, Vampires, Guilty Pleasures, Genre Fiction

  can't be said for most genre fiction (and which might account for the way the book is packaged; you'll find it in the fiction section of your local Barnes & Noble, not in science fiction). There's a scene early on when a very hungry Philip is riding the late night subway, scanning the sparse occupants of his car for a potential victim. He

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• The Postman

  Published: July 29, 2007, 7:10 pm

  Tags: Science Fiction, Action, Recommended, Reviews

  films which uses science fiction as a sort of colorful costume, like Mad Max and Westworld, rather than a core aspect though in the novel this is not the case as Brin’s writing is more complex and considered of the changes wrought by such a cataclysm. Instead, this is mostly a western not terribly different from Costner’s (much

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• Win a signed copy of Meter Made

  Published: July 10, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Life, Sci Fi, Contests, Writing, Science Fiction, My Novels, Books Reading, Zumaya Publications, Commentary

  Jack Meter, the private investigator in my SF mystery series The Jack Meter Case Files, loves to eat. Beside opera, it’s his favorite thing. Not only does he love to eat, but he loves to cook. In his next adventure, Meter Destiny, Jack has settled into an apartment and has returned to his habit of cooking for comfort and thinking through

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• Which Sci-Fi Crew would you best fit in?

  Published: June 29, 2007, 8:24 am

  Tags: Sci Fi, Movies, Life, Science Fiction, Oddities, Humour, Commentary

  A fun quiz, and I’m gratified to fit in with the crew of what used to be my favorite show. URL to get your own quiz results at the bottom of the post. Thanks to ebenstone for pointing me to it. You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5), The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things

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