
Lightspeed Review: Devs & Years and Years
Neither of the shows I reviewed in this month’s Lightspeed are likely to lift your spirits much (OH, THE DARKNESS), but…
September 17, 2020Neither of the shows I reviewed in this month’s Lightspeed are likely to lift your spirits much (OH, THE DARKNESS), but…
September 17, 2020Charlie Kaufman has been channeling his depression into strange entertainments for decades, but I can’t think of one better…
September 5, 2020So, if you’ll pardon the indirect wind-up for a moment: I’ll never forget discovering Band of Brothers. It was…
June 23, 2020It’s quite possible L.X. Beckett’s Gamechanger (2019) was exactly the novel I needed to be reading at this moment…
May 17, 2020Not many shows have captured my heart quite so thoroughly as Lodge 49, a smart, funny, thought-provoking series that…
April 23, 2020There’s nothing top secret about my mission to watch every great spy show ever made. I’ve logged many, many…
April 20, 2020Greetings from coronavirus quarantine, everyone! The world has descended into a deeply weird state of world-altering chaos these past…
March 21, 2020A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the Star Wars franchise stopped speaking to me. Oh,…
February 19, 2020Happy New Year! The first issue of Lightspeed for 2020 is available this morning, and I’m thrilled to report that my…
January 1, 2020Another year in the books! (Exclamation point added, signaling enthusiasm!) Perhaps it’s just my subconscious desperately trying to break…
December 31, 2019My latest Lightspeed media review went live this morning. The genre anthology series is making a comeback lately, and…
September 19, 2019I’ve never read anything quite like Fonda Lee’s Jade City (2017), a lengthy but blazingly fast-paced novel that feels…
September 7, 2019For a good long while, Ted Chiang has been considered one of speculative fiction’s best short fiction writers. On…
August 17, 2019The Terror (2018), AMC’s stunning historical horror about intrepid British explorers searching for the Northwest Passage in the 1840s,…
June 23, 2019It’s fair to say that Watership Down by Richard Adams was one of my favorite novels growing up. I…
May 16, 2019