
TV: The Peripheral (Season 1)
An odd takeaway from season one of The Peripheral: while recognizably based on a William Gibson novel, it doesn’t…
March 21, 2023An odd takeaway from season one of The Peripheral: while recognizably based on a William Gibson novel, it doesn’t…
March 21, 2023You wouldn’t know it from reading previous year-end whinges on this blog, but I love this time of year.…
December 31, 2022For a guy who “retired” in 2013, Steven Soderbergh sure is prolific. After coming out of retirement in 2017,…
February 13, 2022Robert Charles Wilson can generally be relied upon to provide an entertaining, accessible read, and Last Year (2016) is…
March 10, 2021It’s quite possible L.X. Beckett’s Gamechanger (2019) was exactly the novel I needed to be reading at this moment…
May 17, 2020William Gibson’s The Peripheral showed the author at his most dazzling and inventive, a dense, high-concept science fiction thriller…
March 15, 2020The glut of superhero content in movies and TV has diminished my bandwidth for comic books lately, but I…
June 23, 2019Genevieve Valentine’s Persona (2015) falls so squarely in my reading wheelhouse, it’s almost ridiculous. This near-future thriller takes us…
April 6, 2015I’m pretty sure when William Gibson sits down to start a new novel, he says, out loud, “And now,…
December 31, 2014I went into William Gibson’s Zero History (2010) with high expectations. It closes the Blue Ant trilogy of quasi-SF…
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