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