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.

You should try Lonesome Dove

Love that art. I’m more than halfway through Babel-17 and it feels a precursor to stories like Arrival (2016) - (no I have not read those stories yet and yes I will, maybe even this month, lol). But what’s distractingly interesting are the triples. While not mainstream, there is a segment of the population that forms tight three way bonds for work/life/sex. If you lose one of your people you can go to a vault of people who have basically suicided because they lost two of their triple. You can read their profile, and technical specs, to see if you could be a match. That’s a hell of a tinder.

My first entrée of the month is Babel-17, the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novel, jump in friends!

Khalima!!!

Claws, Teeth and Feathers by Charles R. Rutledge ★★★½☆
Dinosaurs, the spook show, and an immortal barbarian battle it out. The story was abrupt but entertaining.

Here There Be Monsters by Dave Beynon ★★★★☆
“It’s their world until we find something useful. Then it becomes annexed. For their own protection, of course.”

A clever, vicious story about a colonial expeditionary force meeting unmerciful monstrosities. There was a hungry malevolence I have not read since Dead Sea.

Hollywood shows it’s obsession with scandal and fashion in the starry cast of The House of Gucci: https://youtu.be/EBGnIQNOPKc

Suits by Steve Lewis ★★★★½
Somewhere in this farmers against aliens story I realized I have never seen Pacific Rim. Now that sounds like an entertaining idea.

Now that I have seen them, I can appreciate how well the author described them.

You don’t appreciate Blade Runner enough until you see the posers, like this new turd: https://youtu.be/nqe6_Se7k40
But I’m also the curmudgeon that did not like the sequel.

No Balance But in Death by Evan Dicken ★★★★☆
The nation-state politics of Ancient Greece give depth to an entertaining zombie story.

Evil that breathes and walks and shrieks, brave new worlds and horror shows, human desperation bursting into deadly menace--such are the themes of these astounding works of fiction. In the tradition of Poe and Stevenson, of Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone, Stephen King has fused images of fear as old as time with the iconography of contemporary American life to create his own special brand of horror--one that has kept millions of readers turning the pages even as they gasp.

I saw Snake Eyes, it was the best of the GI Joe franchise, for whatever that’s worth to you.

Dammit it all Blood Red Sky was a disappointment. I could rant about it, but the movie is not worth it.

Lol, sounds like it was!

Actually I found my own bad ass nun pic 😁

Hungry Eyes by Seth Skorkowsky ★★★½☆
Three modern day knight hunt the strange and dangerous in the Paris catacombs!

One, I’m stealing that photo for my review. I think I stole the flower ship painting form you too.

Two, hell yes another Wynonna Earp fan! I need to watch the final season.

“… loved the use of language and the banter between the 2 main character.”

Me too! Are you also a fan of Tombstone?

Show of Force by Jeremy Robinson & Kane Gilmour ★★★★☆
A coed special forces team locates a secret bioweapons base in an arctic section of outer Mongolia protected by enslaved local cryptid - Mongolian Death Worms! I enjoyed the team dynamic and would read more shorts from this world.