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45059 Season 2 was much closer to Star Trek than season 1. Continuity and canon is always a problem when they set a series in the past of prior series. The big question is, who thought is was necessary to redesign Klingons again??
Nov 28, 2019 11:03AM

45059 Lol, true. Being an Aussie, I'm used to Celsius as well, but I'm not sure Celsius 232.77 would have worked quite as well as a title :)
Nov 27, 2019 10:25PM

45059 I don't think we need a runoff - it looks like we have a winner with Fahrenheit 451 on 4 votes, ahead of Hyperion on 3 votes. Or does it require more than 50% of the vote?
Nov 21, 2019 06:48AM

45059 I took time out from reading the excellent Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey to read the period appropriate short story (even though Aussies don't celebrate Thanksgiving) Gobble Gobble A Tale Thanksgiving Terror!.Not recommended.
Rereading (36 new)
Nov 19, 2019 02:55PM

45059 Apart from LotR (including the Hobbit, and sometimes the Silmarillion), there are a few which I have reread a number of times. ERB's Barsoom series and 'Doc' Smith's Lensmen series would be the only series that I have read more than 4 or 5 times.
Nov 11, 2019 10:30PM

45059 I finished The Last Airship and have also read Elric: The Dreaming City, the Marvel comics adaptation of one of Michael Moorcock's Elric stories.
Nov 07, 2019 03:20PM

45059 Currently finished 5 books in my rereading of the Thomas Covenant series. I expect I will read book 6 this year, but most likely won't start the last 4 until next year.

I'm a bit over half way through the first book in the Sam Reilly series by Christopher Cartwright. They are thrillers - a reasonable level of suspension of disbelief is required, but not enough to class them as SF. There are currently 18 in the series but, as is usual with this type of story, they seem to be stand alone, so I don't feel any great need to read them all in a row.
Nov 05, 2019 05:19PM

45059 I finished The Taint and Other Novellas. A good collection of stories, with a couple of gems. Recommended for fans of Brian Lumley or fans of Lovecraft's Mythos. Next up is The Last Airship, the first in the Sam Reilly series (which is currently at 18 books, I believe). Not SFF.
Nov 03, 2019 08:07AM

Nov 03, 2019 07:49AM

45059 Andrea wrote: "The end of the year is approaching, do you have reading goals you are running out of time to finish?"

I'm confident I will achieve my reading challenge for the year - 7 books to read in 2 months - although this usually the busiest time of the year for work. I have accepted that I won't complete all 10 Thomas Covenant books this year.
Oct 25, 2019 04:44AM

45059 So, finally, after more than a month, I have finished The One Tree. Almost certainly the bleakest of the first two trilogies, and the one I found hardest to read - primarily due to my almost complete lack of caring about the primary character - Linden Avery turns out to be far more unlikable than Thomas Covenant. I have given a more detailed review on my wall.

I will continue with my reading of all 10 Covenant books, but I feel it is time for some palate cleansing, and I will read something lighter for a while.
Oct 22, 2019 09:43PM

45059 Barbara wrote: "I watched season 3 of 'Glitch' on Netflix. It's about dead people who get reconstituted and come back to life (as regular folks, not zombies) in an Australian town.

I liked the first 2 seasons but..."


I enjoyed the first 2 seasons - and it's always nice to see home-grown sci-fi :) - but I haven't got around to the 3rd season yet.

If you are interested in Aussie SFF, there is a show called Cleverman (2 seasons, 12 episodes), which is a SF / superhero show based (loosely) on Aboriginal mythology. I have no idea if it's on Netflix elsewhere, it's on the ABC here.
Oct 09, 2019 02:15PM

45059 I finished Blue Devil Island and I have returned to reading The One Tree
Oct 01, 2019 06:24PM

45059 Andrea wrote: "So whether you're looking for something creepy to go along with Halloween, or just something warm to snuggle up under a blanket with (even Southern Hemisphere folks probably still need a blanket to..."

Depends on where you are. Even in Sydney (which is far from the warmest part of Australia), the temperature is getting up to 30 Celsius (high 80s for those using Fahrenheit) at the moment.
Sep 29, 2019 09:53PM

45059 I also enjoyed it. It would seem that the writers were given enough notice of the cancellation to be able to wrap most of the plotlines, so there was some closure.
Sep 29, 2019 12:12AM

45059 Still reading through the Thomas Covenant Chronicles, but I have put The One Tree aside for a while. I got a Conan fix in with The Savage Sword of Conan, Volume 10 and I am currently reading Blue Devil Island, a tale of eldritch horror in World War II
"Grimdark" (35 new)
Sep 26, 2019 05:30PM

45059 The first time I read LotR (I was probably around 14) I was so distressed when Gandalf fell into the darkness that I stopped reading it for a week or two. I certainly didn't have the same reaction when Boromir was killed :)

As for however Martin is going to finish SoIaF, honestly, I don't think he will. Even after Winds of Winter, I expect there will be at least two, maybe three more books - and at the rate he is currently writing them I don't think there is any chance that he will live long enough to complete them - hopefully he will leave comprehensive notes for whoever his estate brings in to ghost-write them. Although, with the story having been wrapped up by the HBO series, I wonder if there will be sufficient interest for that to happen.
Introduce Yourself! (1510 new)
Sep 25, 2019 03:24AM

45059 You're not alone in that Clare. I also enjoy pulp-style crime.
Sep 17, 2019 10:12PM

45059 I finished Tales from the Rocket Age and have continued on my Thomas Covenant quest with The One Tree
Sep 15, 2019 07:20PM

45059 I have started Tales from the Rocket Age, a collection of 4 short stories based on a pulp-style sci-fi setting where Einstein and Tesla created an interplanetary rocket in the 30s and Mars, Venus, the moons of Jupiter etc. all have sentient lifeforms.