Lena’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2014)

Lena’s comments from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.

My favorite part of the Rebel Scum video was the comment section saying the guy went on to have a successful career with the Empire.

The Street That Time Forgot by Deborah Chester ★★★☆☆
I liked the dog love and the frantic pacing but these conspiracies of little sense are overrated.

The Wrong Room by R. L. Stein ★★½☆☆
Cruel and sad. Death of a salesman.

It’s a gun popular with rebel scum.

A Chance of a Ghost by Lucia St. Clair Robson ★★☆☆☆
Twilight Zone romances are unsatisfying.

Vampin’ Down the Avenue by Timothy Zahn ★★★★☆
Just a dab will do you. In the spirit of Death Becomes Her, Timothy Zahn shows how a little vampirism can really come in handy. The rest is a comedy of errors with a twist!

Truth or Consequences by Carole Nelson Douglas ★★☆☆☆
I should have DNF’d. The story dragged but I thought something shocking would occur. Nothing.

Puowaina by Alan Brennert ★★★☆☆
”When I think of my father, I think of fire.”
I enjoyed the peek at turn of the century Hawaiian life. The way the story describes second sight is what I’ve always thought it would be like. Useless if you have heroic aspirations, but if you are clever and secretive, it could be personally divine.

Torn Away by Joe R. Lansdale ★★★★☆
Face changing, witchcraft, immortality, monstrous shadows - this was a fun one. Almost an episode of X-Files, but not as good as their spooky shadow episode - Soft Light.

Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Finney, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin
H.G. Wells's seminal novella The Time Machine, published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction's time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told!

Finally I am going to read To Kill a Mockingbird, 1961 Pulitzer Prize Winner. It’s one of those books most people read in high school, but it wasn’t on my curriculum.

No, it’s because there was an offer last month for two months for 99¢.

Andor looks amazing: https://youtu.be/PAVJmiU3SUk
Not surprising, as Rogue One was the only “new” Star Wars I liked.

Dark was the best show on Netflix and now those same people have made 1899: https://youtu.be/ulOOON_KYHs

It looks ok.

On the Road by William F. Wu ★★☆☆☆
Awe… wait what?!?! You can’t give me a whole story about desire and destiny then end it with pragmatism!

The Art of the Miniature by Earl Hammer ★★★★☆
Ooh. Never mess with someone’s obsession! I loved it. I especially liked that the protagonist dismissed murder entirely as proper revenge. No, no, the matter was handled with artistic punity.

Benchwarmer by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn ★★★½☆
An invisible childhood friend waits in loneliness until he is needed again.

The next two were pretty good.

Just finished the video, gorgeous upgrades. I think sleeping on a train would be hella soothing.

I was wrong, your video shows a lovely shower. A previous video had shown there were bunk beds and no showers.

“And there will have to be a prudish, white, transphobic priest.”
Nailed it.

And I will drop luxury Peruvian train adventure as a compliment to the orient express, which looks amazing, but I think lacks showers.
https://youtu.be/uzyYKAPcfmE

Under the new interests Mekare and Maharet would be black lesbians - obviously. Maybe Mekare is trans.

Not high on the love no. 13 Bullets did horror vampires better, so did 30 Days of Night.

Yes it was. And they remembered the ludicrously hot men.