Chronicle Of Awesome: Speculation The Grand Theory Of Lost
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It seems like just a few weeks ago; I watched the season 5 finale of Lost. It was only after the final LOST logo came on to the screen that the reality of a 9 month wait started to sink in. So, impatient as I was, I decided to speculate my way to a series [...]
For The Love Of Good Television, Watch V
In a few days, the remake of the 1983 TV series, V, will air across TV screens in the US. If you’re a US citizen, I urge you to watch it, for two reasons:
If it’s just 10% as good as the old series, it’s going to be absolutely incredible.
V is in trouble. TV execs don’t [...]
Redemption Ark (2002) Mini-Review
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Nevil Clavain has lived for four hundred years and he has seen his share of war. As the depth of a new threat awakened decades ago — The Inhibitors — becomes clear, Clavain is forced to reconsider his allegiances. Meanwhile, the mysterious Ilya Volyova has plans for her cache of self-aware doomsday weapons.
Redemption Ark is [...]
Dyson Tree
A Dyson tree is a hypothetical genetically-engineered plant, (perhaps resembling a tree) capable of growing in a comet, suggested by the physicist Freeman Dyson. He suggested that such plants could produce a breathable atmosphere within hollow spaces in the comet (or even within the plants themselves) utilising solar energy and cometary materials, thus providing self-sustaining [...]
District 9 (2009) Mini-Review
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While a mysterious alien spacecraft is stranded above Johannesburg for two decades, its seemingly clueless inhabitants form a slum beneath it. As tensions mount in the human population of the city, an eviction plan is set in motion. As the government agent, Wikus Van De Merwe, enters District 9 to inform the alien inhabitants of [...]
The Ringworld Throne Mini-Review
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The inhabitants of the Ringworld are adapting to the effects of Louis Wus world stabilization efforts. As such, various homonid species find themselves with unlikely allies, uniting against the surging common vampire enemy. On the other side of the world, Louis Wu, now an aging and ill man reunites with his old friends as he [...]
Chasm City (2001) Mini-Review
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Tanner Mirabel is a security specialist bent on revenge. In the chase of his prey, his travels take him to the plague-ridden Chasm City where things are no longer as they used to be. As his journey winds down, flashes of memories begin to haunt him.
Chasm City is nothing less than steam-punk sci-fi. That is, [...]
Ringworld & Ringworld Engineers Mini-Reviews
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During a trip to Sicily last week, I read the first two books set in Larry Nivens _Ringworld_ space epos.
Revelation Space (2000) Mini-Review
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Revelation Space tells the story of Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist in the far future who uncovers a startling find on a desolate planet called Resurgam. The find points way back in the past and warns of dangerous world-changing events that have already happened and might happen again.
Being the first book in a series of 5, [...]
The Ethics of Human Teleportation
Sure, Star Trek-style teleportation seems like the next big thing. Sure we could _go on vacation in July_ just by stepping on to a transporter pad and be instantly moved from A to B; B probably being _Acapulco_ or somewhere really nice. Off the bat we would love it, but have you ever pondered the moral and ethical implications of teleportation?