The first Fate of the Jedi book : Outcast – was a decent but not great book.
Omen on the other hand is a GREAT book. Both a great Star Wars book and a fine SciFi book too.
The most memorable bit of this book for me are the backstory elements from the Sith of Kesh. [...]
The film claiming “Best Horror Movie” for 2009, audiences are screaming and getting out of their seats watching “Paranormal Activity”!
Shown on a limited run in select theaters, Paranormal is getting quite a buzz. The website includes a demand it form for local theaters to show the film. Clips of the audience reactions (getting scared/jumping!) were [...]
WTF? Did we miss something?
The first episode of season two doesn’t follow from the last episode of season one.
At the end of the last season we had Alpha on the run and Ballard had just come in. Now?
Is this all some conspiracy to get us to buy season one on DVD?
THAT SUX.
And how could Echo [...]
The second episode of Fringe Season 2 was another fine episode.
Sure we had another mutant thing – and yes there are too many mutants in Fringe overall – but still it was interesting.
The Faux Francis character is neat too, still getting instruction via the mirror and now instead of trying to kill Olivia he is [...]
Flash Forward ’s debut episode on ABC was pretty cool.
Actors we’re all great and the story was solid.
Why did they all flash? And why did they all Flash Forward to April 29, 2010 at 10 PM ??
No I haven’t read the book yet (Flashforward), though now i’m really tempted too. Though the book and the [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , September 23, 2009 September Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour This month's tour goes out to The Vanishing Sculptor by Donita Paul . Paul's website is here and her blog is here Brandon Barr Jim Black Justin Boyer Rachel Briard Karri Compton Amy Cruson CSFF Blog Tour Stacey Dale D . G . D . Davidson Jeff Draper April Erwin Karina Fabian Linda Gilmore Todd Michael Greene Katie Hart Ryan Heart Becky Jesse Cris Jesse Jason Joyner Julie Carol Keen Krystine Kercher Dawn King Rebecca LuElla Miller Mirtika Eve Nielsen posting later in the week Nissa John W . Otte Lyn Perry Crista Richey Cheryl Russell Chawna Schroeder James Somers Speculative Faith Rachel Starr Thomson Robert Treskillard Steve Trower Fred Warren Dona Watson Phyllis Wheeler Elizabeth Williams KM Wilsher Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 10:13 PM Labels : Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour Donita K . Paul Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky
What is beta? Now we know.
ABC may have toasted Defying Gravity, but CTV in Canada hasn’t.
In fact CTV has aired the episode that everyone in the U.S wanted to see,the one where beta is finally revealed.
so here’s the spoiler — beta is an alien fractal life form.
It’s one of eight -and was found on Earth. [...]
The first episode of Fringe Season 2 was awesome wasn’t it?
First we think that Olivia is dead, then we get another new cast member.
Fringe division is shut down then it’s back.
And in between we get that awesome scene where the alien warrior is able to send messages across universes with the typewriter and the mirror.
neat [...]
NO I don’t frakkin know why Starbuck is an Angel and yes the final episode of Battlestar Galactica SUCKED.
But we’re going to get a second chance. On October 27th the Battlestar Galactica movie The Plan is coming out on DVD. Originally it was first to be on TV, but now it’s not going to [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Monday , September 14, 2009 Introducing a New Product from the Creator of The Sci Fi Catholic I've been away for quite a while , but as usual I have an excuse . Although my past business ventures , such as the Tossed Cookies Plug-ins and Shiatsu by Shih Tzu were failures , my current one is sure to be a huge . success You can tell this is a gluttonous society : we now actually bathe in food . The other day , I was in the soap aisle at the grocery store looking at the body wash and began to notice the various ingredients : mango , green tea , yogurt , honey , and even oatmeal . I said to myself , This isn't soap , this is breakfast . Yet the foods offered here in the soap aisle are all woman-on-a-diet breakfasts . Where are the manly , meaty soaps to get my day started That's why I've created Hearty Breakfast Soap for Men™ made with moisturizing sausage and eggs , exfoliating hash browns , and coffee a skin toner and emulsifier Hearty Breakfast Soap for Men™ rinses clean with no filmy residue , making your skin feel refreshed , leavingLast night’s episode – episode (Love, Honor, Obey
) of Defying Gravity was one of the better episodes of the series.
We finally had some action – and we were on the verge of finding out who/what Beta was.
We’ll now never find out as the geniuses that run ABC have canceled Defying Gravity.
INSANE.
Sure the show was slow, [...]
This is the second Ian M. Banks Culture novel we’ve read (the first was Consider Phelebas) and no it’s not as good as the first.
That’s not to say this isn’t a good book – but you just need a whole lot more patience.
Use of Weapons is all about a Culture agent known as Zalkawe [...]
While I read a lot of science fiction, somehow I had never read Iain M. Banks.
I know, I know i’m a frakking nugget.
So over the summer I picked up Banks’ first SciFi novel (and first Culture novel) Consider Phelbas.
What an incredible ride. Sure there is the larger setting space opera stuff that is the [...]
Don’t know about you but we miss Clone Wars and can’t wait for season two to start.
We’ll all have to wait until Friday Oct 2nd though.
It looks like this year will mark the return of the Bounty Hunters, and in particular Mandalorian bounty hunters (not just Fett either).
If you’re looking for Star Wars The Clone [...] From the ‘wtf is going on files:
We’ve watched 7 episode of Defying Gravity and we still don’t know what’s going on.
The last two episodes (6 & 7) could easily have been merged into one episode, but instead we’ve got this long drawn out piece of crap.
This show started off with a cool premise, and [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , August 30, 2009 At the Seminary To let everyone know I'm alive , I'm now happily installed at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon . I haven't had the chance to post before now as we have been in our tightly packed orientation week . I'll put up some more substantial posts later when I have the . time Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 9:43 PM Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with steak in his name . dang , that sentence contains so much testosterone , my biceps: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Thursday , August 20, 2009 August Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour . Oops I've been on the road and visiting home , and I was about to start in on an important post I hope I can get up tomorrow or the day after , and realized I once again spaced the blog tour . That's what I get for moving and utterly changing my life during a blog tour . My apologies to all tour members and visitors who have come to this blog looking for a book discussion and instead found narcissistic personal notes . I bet you never expected to see those on a . blog Okay , the author this month is Robin Parrish , and the novel is Offworld as you can guess from the title , this novel is being published in a new experimental digital format broadcast from deep space . Contact your local SETI representative for your . copy Hm , even I can't laugh at that . Okay , that's enough for title jokes . Let's get on to : content First , you can see Robin Parrish's website here and his blog here The plot summary goes like this : The crew of the first manned Mars mission
Sure Terminator 3 sucked – and yes Terminator Salvation sucked too – and yeaaah Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles sucked too..
Not of those SUCK arse shows/movies SUCK as bad as The Terminators
This is a straight to DVD release by a bunch of knock-off copyright scam artists -
So no even though you might think that [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Thursday , August 13, 2009 Best Movie Ever This movie preview for Raging Phoenix got me so totally pumped , I nearly kicked my mom right in the face . It's the new JeeJa Yanin flick from Thailand , and though it is unfortunately still made with that real fighting and real injuries garbage . it has dance-fu Do you hear me Dance-fu And it has JeeJa Yanin , of course , which is also a bonus , and it even claims to contain the first film presentation of Chinese Drunken Boxing vs . Drunken Muay . Thai Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 11:16 PM Labels : movies Raging Phoenix Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I
V is coming to ABC on Nov 3, 2009 and we’re excited as FRAK to see it.
Will this be a re-imagined masterpiece like Battlestar Galactica?
That’s what we all hope for isn’t it?
Posted in scifi Tagged: ABC, scifi, V : . skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , August 11, 2009 St . Philomena's Feast Day Agh , I feel awful . Here we are into August and I completely forgot that today is the feast day of St . Philomena , unofficial patroness and muse of struggling , absent-minded science-fiction-writing seminarians Some of my readers remembered my patroness better than I did and sent me reminders . For shame , . Deej Hermeneutic of Continuity has a short write-up , and a picture I . stole Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 7:58 PM Labels : St . Philomena Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For The first post-pilot episode (technically episode 3)of Defying Gravity was on Sunday night..and it wasn’t half as good as the pilot.
Instead of telling us who/what Beta is – barely a mention – we get a long drawn out sloooooooooow episode.
Yes the whole bit about libido suppression was interesting – and the halo was an [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , August 9, 2009 Big Brother Really Is Actually Watching You So , the White House wants you to report on the free speech of your fellow citizens , as you can read here It says , If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy you can send it flag . whitehouse.gov . Hmm You can read Senator John Cornyn's response in the Washington Wire Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 8:29 PM Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , August 9, 2009 Karina Fabian and Ann Lewis on the Radio Karina Fabian , who you know as the editor of Infinite Space , Infinite God and the author of the Dragon Eye , PI stories , and who I know as that person I pester all the time , was on the radio along with Ann Lewis , mystery writer , in an interview by Al Kresta . Do you want to hear them on the radio Of course you do , so go here to hear the . podcast Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 7:28 PM Labels : Ann Lewis Karina Fabian radio Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer
A lot of buz today on the SciFi scene about a new Science Fiction version of Robin Hood heading for the big screen.
Could it be Rocket Robin Hood?!!!
Rocket Robin Hood is a cult classic late 60′ cartoon – cheesy and campish. But it’s classic and it’s awesome. As a kid, me an my friends would [...]
Awesome site called WhereIWrite.org has an amazing collection of pictures of the ‘offices’ of some famous (living) scifi authors.
Here’s one of my fav authors – Piers Anthony – and his office is one of the most orderly in the whole set.
Posted in scifi Tagged: Piers Anthony, science fiction, scifi We’re going to make an early prediction – Defying Gravity- the new ABC sciFi show is going to make it.
The pilot episode(s) were exceptionally well written with awesome pacing and the right mix of flashbacks, forward movement and plot conspiracies.
The biggest mystery now is – who or what is Beta? and where is Antares [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Friday , July 31, 2009 And Now for Some Good News-- According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association six-foot redheaded Charismatic Mennonite baristas with glasses and overbites are unlikely to get those charming overbites fixed . CNN : reports New research published in this month's Journal of American Dental Association found that painful experiences at the dentist might cause more anxiety for men and women with red hair , who were twice as likely to avoid dental care than people with dark . hair Redheads are sensitive to pain , said Dr . Daniel Sessler , an Outcomes Research Department chair at The Cleveland Clinic , in Cleveland , Ohio , who is one of the . authors They require more generalized anesthesia , localized anesthesia . The conventional doses fail . They have bad experiences at the dentist and because of the bad experiences , they could avoid dental care . more . Excellent Those of us with IASFRCMBGO couldn't be happier Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 6:33 PM Labels : Deej is a loser news
Really?!? Imagine greater?!? Who is the channel trying to convice? Us the viewers, who have grown ti: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , July 26, 2009 Awesomest Thing Ever Sorry I've been derelict in posting , but please go here to see what may be the awesomest thing ever I mean , really , that's awesome . I gotta have one of . those Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 9:38 PM Labels : aw3som3sauc3 Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with steak in his name . dang , that sentence contains so much testosterone , my biceps grew a quarter inch while I was writing it . Anyway , this novel , about
Yeaah we’re pumped for Tron 2..we sure have waited long enough.
Last year they were going to call it TR2N which was one of the coolest names for a flick ever.
Now the Mickey Mousketeers and Disney have butchered that and are now calling the moving Tron Legacy.
Isn’t that a little lame?
Early footage looks awesome though – [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , July 21, 2009 July Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour The Deej said that , since I wasn't any help packing , I could post today on the blog instead . That made me mad , so I called him a sexist , and then he said that word didn't mean anything , and I said yeah it did , and it's in the dictionary and it has his picture next to it , and then he said it only had his picture next to it because I xeroxed his photo from his high school yearbook and used a glitter glue stick to put it in the dictionary next to the word sexist . Then I said that if the guys who made the dictionary knew him , his picture would be in there already anyway so I was just helping them out . So . there This month , the Blog Tour is about The Enclave by Karen Hancock . Hancock's website is here and her blog is here Now I'm gonna look up some reviews or . something Check out Virtual Book Tour which at first I thought might be one of those 3D video tours of a library , but it's not . It has a book review that tells us this novel is about a genetics: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Monday , July 20, 2009 ACLJ Petition and Blog Tour Once again I didn't get much of a post in today . You can probably understand , as I'm packing to move to the seminary and such . I recently ordered my clerical attire , but no , you can't see it , as it's for seminary use only . I will say , though , that sending a fanboy , who of course loves to play dress-up oops , I mean cosplay into a clothing store , especially a religious clothing store , is like sending a kid into a candy shop and telling him to pick out anything he wants . You'll be glad to know I resisted the urge to buy the clerical shirts with the French-cut sleeves and cross-shaped cuff links . I did splurge and buy the greatcoat , but I refrained from buying the fedora . In spite of the lack of goofy accessories , I can say the result is still aw3som3sauc3 Before I sign off for the day I'd like to point you to a petition at the American Center for Law and Justice to ask Congress to leave out the part of the new health care bill that would enforce mandatory abortion coverage in
A new bunch of Habro ships are now out – including a new Super Vulture Droid fighter!
Loads of weapons on this bad boy – 6 rockets with 2 launchers, for all sorts of combat fun. A spring-loaded “head” pops up to compliment the split-apart wings, which transforms the ship from sleek starfighter to a birdlike [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Saturday , July 18, 2009 View-Master Movie No , it's not a sequel to Beastmaster Somebody mentioned this to me a week ago and I assumed it was simply a joke , but it's not . I think . DreamWorks actually wants to make a movie based on the View-Master You know , the little toy that's basically a primitive portable . slideshow I posted on the toy-movie thing earlier . But this is too much like a bad joke . How could anyone working on this movie ever live it down Yeah , I played Slide 25 in View-Master Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 10:35 PM Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read: : skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Saturday , July 18, 2009 Upcoming Movie Review : Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince This one's obligatory . Appears to be an all-or-nothing film every review either says it's great or it totally . sucks Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 6:22 PM Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Comment Feed RSS Do Something to Halt the Advance of the Brave New World D . G . D . Davidson Snuffles the Dragon Lucky the Goldfish Click to subscribe FeedBurner Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz Subscribe to Comments Feed Blogroll Me Get great free widgets at Widgetbox Rate Me on BlogHop.com help Who links to me Read My Conversion Story Currently Reading D.G.D . Someone recently told me I need to be more manly . I assumed he meant I need to read more manly military space opera . For sheer manliness , you can't go wrong with a book entitled Armor by a guy with steak in his name . dang , that sentence contains so much testosterone , my biceps grew a quarter inch while I was writing it . Anyway , this novel , about soldiers in powered armor
The Star Trek Destiny series ripped apart the Star Trek universe leaving billions dead and billions more homeless…
This isn’t a Federation vs SOMEONE ELSE book, this is a Federation against itself book as it tries to deal with massive refugee movements and politics.
At first I was a bit skeptical — but once I got [...]
There have been a lot of fan films based off Star Wars – the original movie episode IV A New Hope – over the last 30 years.
Now Star Wars Uncut has an ingenious way to get a whole star wars movie made by fans – 15 seconds at a time.
It’s an interesting idea – but [...]
So at long last – we finally hit the final book in the HitchHiker’s series and Mostly Harmless really is mostly fun.
The whole bit with Tricia/Tristan in parallel timelines wasn’t just the typical Adams sillyness – but is brilliantly crafted character scifi too.
What if you chose a different path what would have happened sort [...]
MJ’s only SciFi film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas.
Michael Jackson plays Captain EO Leader of a Spaceship and a misfit crew confronting an evil queen, “The Supreme Leader” (Anjelica Houston).
The seventeen minute film was shot in full 3-D for Disneyland’s Tomorrowland attraction Magic Eye Theater, the feature ran from 1986-1997.
Michael [...]
im all down for out with the old, in with the new, but really there are things in this galaxy that