Octavia Butler The first Octavia Butler book I read was Kindred published in 1979. It’s a time travel story that is heartwrenching, gripping, and sometimes optimistic. An African-American woman is pulled back in time to antebellum South. The story is brutally honest. Butler doesn’t pull punches or “whitewash” slavery. Kindred is the kind of story […]
Here’s Some Super-Duper Geeky Stuff
Some Cool, Geeky Stuff My brother loved comic books and science fiction, horror, and fantasy books, movies, and television. I shared the same interests, except comic books and horror B-movies–I never really got into them. When he went into the Marines, he packed his massive comic book collection in a box and left it in […]
“The 100”: My Pick for the Best Sci Fi on TV
Why? For me, it’s the best, but I realize there are differences of opinion. I came to The 100 late. I missed the first season because I thought the previews looked ho-hum. I watched the first season on Netflix, and by episode three, I was hooked. I haven’t read the books, but I’m considering reading […]
6 Videos That Reveal the Mysteries of Steampunk
When I think of Steampunk, I think of books and films, but Steampunk is so much more. It’s a sub-culture that allows creativity in many areas. This is a collection of Steampunk shorts. The key to most of these is re-imagining and re-creating what might have been or what could have been. I like the […]
Fathers of Steampunk
How Do You Celebrate Father’s Day? Cards? Gifts? Outings? Giving appreciation to the men who made our lives possible is definitely the theme of the day. When I was a kid, I’d make my dad a card and buy him a yellow shirt. He had blue eyes and somewhere, somehow, I decided that yellow matched […]
2 Reasons We Love Steampunk
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.” Bruce Sterling Steampunk began in the 1970s with science fiction novels set in Victorian London, but the seeds for this style were planted years before. Now, more than thirty years later, Steampunk has become a diverse cultural movement. The Victorian/Edwardian aesthetics pervade not only […]