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From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain 11 reviews
Minister Faust
Del Rey, 2007
From the first BZZT!
+ Super Reader
+ Another Clever, Highly Creative Book from Faust
+ More than it appears, this is a first rate modern novel.
+ Amazing literature- I couldn't put it down.
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Fantastic Planet 24 reviews
ACCENT CINEMA, 2007
Still looks great!
+ rare find indeed!
I was surprised and happy! to see this has been made available to purchase as a DVD. I saw this when it was originally playing in theaters and I never forgot it. And I'm happy to report it still looks great. In fact, everything about this movie has stood the test of time. And that Includes the ...
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Three Days to Never 37 reviews
Tim Powers
Harper, 2007
I thought only angels could bi-locate
+ Weird book, okay, but weird
+ Another Tim Powers brain-twister.
Tim Powers's book is a work of wicked imagination, a terrific romp, culminating a little cheesily, however. Too pat. Nonetheless, I have new respect for Einstein's baby-making powers, as well as his adept ability to discover radical new theories--even those I had never heard about before.
But as ...
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Torchwood - The Complete First Season99 reviews
John Barrowman, Eve Myles
BBC Warner, 2008
Wonderfully Entertaining
+ Great Series, Great Amazon Service, Not So Disk Quality
+ this sexy supernatural police force
It's hard describing the "Torchwood" series. "Sort of like 'X-Files' when it first came out" just seems so inadequate. Yes, it's SciFi, but I compare it more to "The Sopranos" because the acting, writing, storylines and characters are so very absorbing. Like Tyler Perry's movies, the stories are ...
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Neuromancer452 reviews
William Gibson
Ace Hardcover, 2004
Still Good After All These Years
+ If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story...
+ Lives up to the hype
I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the ...
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The X-Files - The Complete Third Season (Slim Set) 388 reviews
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
20th Century Fox, 2006
The beginning of a true classic!!
+ The Best Three Episodes from the X-Files!
+ A Very Good Season, Not THE Best Though...
+ great show
+ The Beginning of a Classic!
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A Wrinkle in Time73 reviews
Madeleine L'Engle
Square Fish, 2007
BEST BOOK EVER
+ An Entertaining Science Fiction Story with Theological Theme
+ Tea: One please, thanks
+ A Piece of Literature in Time
+ One of my favorites
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2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition)920 reviews
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
Warner Home Video, 2007
This is the best science fiction movie ever made, moreover it is close to science fact.
+ Fantastic
+ A Visual Delight!!!
+ A Great Film
+ Kubrick's masterpiece
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A Canticle for Leibowitz233 reviews
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Eos, 2006
"Sic transit mundus"
+ St. Leibowitz: A Post-apocalyptic Saint for our Times
+ Sci-fi that isn't
Comparing the United States to the Roman Empire seems to be a fashionable thing to do lately. And the argument is certainly not without merit. As the only superpower left its natural to make judgments based on the worlds great empires and to ask if we are making the same mistakes that caused their ...
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The Andromeda Strain376 reviews
Michael Crichton
Avon, 2003
Crichton's big ticket
+ Nice early work of Crichton
I actually saw the movie before I read the book. I thought the movie was really good until I read the book... Wow! Crichton's writing style is amazing and addictive! Now, when I see the movie, I still think it's good, but it pales in comparison to the book.
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Galaxy Quest483 reviews
Patrick Breen, Jeffrey Howard
Dreamworks Video, 2000
A Perfect(ly) Dysfunctional Star Trek
+ Bad Language?
+ Actually a pretty good lesson
+ Galaxy Quest
+ Quest No More
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Demolition Man113 reviews
Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes
Warner Home Video, 1997
Popcorn action/sci-fi
+ Demolition Man
+ Action, sci-fi and comedy rolled into one
There is normally a glut of action oriented science fiction movies that come out each summer and it's hard to pick out the good ones from the bad ones. At times I can be as eager as the next guy to just have a fun popcorn movie that doesn't rely on any deep storytelling, but just good old high ...
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Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series20 reviews
David Tennant, Catherine Tate
BBC Warner, 2008
Already on the 4th season and no signs of slowing down
+ Hands Down Best Season of Doctor Who!
+ Brilliant!!!!!
It wasn't too long ago that the new series of Doctor Who started up, and before that day, I had only heard of the show in passing. I gave it a shot, and coming from a clean slate, I found I loved the show and have been watching it even since. One of the things that really captivated me about the ...
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That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3)89 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Scribner, 2003
Simply Incredible
+ Strong writing
+ A book that requires INTENSITY of THOUGHT (and time)
This is one of my favorite books of all time. I have read a number of the negative reviews, and I can see how someone who doesn't share the religious views of Lewis might be put off. If a reader is not at all open to the possibility of the supernatural then this book might be tough going. But for ...
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All Tomorrow's Parties131 reviews
William Gibson
Berkley, 2003
Oddly Interesting Story
+ "And what shall she do with Thursday's rags / When Monday comes around"
A very odd story. There are shifts of location that sort of take you by surprise and then there are the trips through a computer land. Eventually you understand that this is a future world. It is an odd jumble of events that create the interest.
At first there is the odd character, Laney, who ...
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Vurt104 reviews
Jeff Noon
St. Martin's Griffin, 1996
Vurtual feathers
Vurt is an odd beast. I found it hard to start with, but soon the world had sucked me in. In futuristic Manchester those looking for hallucinogenic experiences suck on feathers to enter virtual worlds, Vurts. Stash Riders, a bunch of miscellaneous losers, hunt for interesting feathers and try to ...
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Thinner Than Thou14 reviews
Kit Reed
Tor Books, 2005
swift-paced biting satire
Reverend Earl began his preaching as infomercials, but quickly resonated with a population struggling with eating disorders. He simply offered his followers opportunities to be thin without the risks of anorexia, bulimia and constant fad diets by joining his Crossed Triceps health clubs. Soon ...
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1)56 reviews
Octavia E. Butler
Aspect, 1997
SF Classic, apocalypse / slavery / gender themes
+ A Good Series Opener
+ Lilith's Struggle
+ what if the salvation of humanity was to be come less than human?
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The Man Who Fell to Earth - Criterion Collection110 reviews
David Bowie, Rip Torn
Criterion, 2005
The Man Who Fell To Earth - Trippy and Beautiful
+ The Man Who Fell to Earth - CRITERION edition
+ The men who fell to earth
+ Brilliant, haunting evocation of alienation
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The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel348 reviews
Jasper Fforde
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
This book is even better than you may have heard!!!
+ Totally new style of writing - very witty.
+ "Wonderful!" mumbled the bookworms.
+ Addictive
+ Interesting concept
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