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.

I liked the first Dresden books, I don’t remember where I left off. I was curious where the romance was going, so I Wikipedia’d and found out there was no romance and Dresden was a dead beat dad. It killed it for me.

Those new controllers have too many buttons. Pinball, Atari, NES, they had it right - button A button B. Why complicate things?

Wow! It seems unnecessary, but ok.

There were games made after Tetris?

Hello Halo: https://youtu.be/yUhmYYqCCMQ

A Soldier of the City by David Moles. DNF
After a string of duds I decided to pass when the story did not grab me.

Mercies by Gregory Benford ★★★½☆
A time traveler goes back to kill serial killers, but that technically makes him one too.

Mantis by Robert Reed ★★½☆☆
This was a thought exercise about the real verses the might be real - interesting but not fun.

Judgement Eve by John C. Wright ★★★☆☆
An apocalyptic Christian mythos story with genetic engineering and cyborgs. It reminded me that I have wanted to read Sharon Shinn for ages. Perhaps if the narrator had not sounded like a jowly, ponderous, lecturn pounding preacher I would have enjoyed it more.

That’s an advantage!

Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone by Damien Broderick and Barbara Lamar ★★☆☆☆
After a fashion, this was the namesake story, but I did not enjoy it. This was a physics fantasy that did not feel the need to make sense.

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That’s a good one J.

Creatures with Wings by Kathleen Ann Goonan ★★★☆☆
Before an asteroid destroys the earth a group of Buddhist monks is spirited away to another planet. The rest of the book reads like a SciFi version on The Secret or, more likely, SciFi Buddhism. It was ok.

Welcome back!

I forgot to post this last week but Lily James’s transformation into Pamela Anderson is the best acting I’ve ever seen. I can’t see James at all, she is Pamela Anderson: https://youtu.be/rvSP911QV10

91 was a good stretch though.

Graeme, do feel the annoyance of the real Nagata verses the casting?

Bit Rot by Charles Stross ★★★½☆
Generation ship cyborgs are hit with cosmic radiation and turn into zombies!

The Server and the Dragon by Hannu Rajaniemi ★★★☆☆
The life, and betrayal, of a space creature. This was odd.

Fresh Prince is getting a reboot: https://youtu.be/mvoCbicthM4
Unfortunately, it does not look like a next generation but a straight up redo judging by IMDB.

Good to see you again Jeff!

You gave Both Solaris’s four stars?!?! That makes me want to watch them again.