Forward the Foundation
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is most well known as the winner of the Hugo Award for “Best All-Time...
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.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Weren’t expecting this, were you? Based on the trailer, my impression of the movie was that it was going to...
View ArticleCitizens Grok TANSTAAFL
.fb-like span { overflow:visible !important; width:450px !important; margin-right:-200px; } Robert A. Heinlein consistently tackled social themes through the framework of his speculative fiction in...
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Welcome to Paradise; Welcome to Hell
Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld series postulates the mass awakening of the entire deceased population of the Earth on a paradise planet where a single, massive river separates two shores bounded by...
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In my previous examination of Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld, I spoke much about Farmer and very little about his setting. I’m afraid I find Farmer’s work tedious, but the Riverworld setting...
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Dungeons & Dragons by Jim Zub
I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled onto Humble Bundle; it probably came up in one of the forums or newsgroups I read. However it happened, I arrived just in time to purchase their Dungeons &...
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Doctor Who at Titan Comics
I’m afraid my association with Doctor Who is not as extensive or storied as it could be. I watched Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen on PBS with the rest of my generation but I was always more interested...
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Wacky Raceland
In the summer of 2016, Warner Bros decided to try and reimagine their popular Hannah-Barbera cartoon characters as more mature versions of themselves. This line included four titles: Future Quest,...
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Scooby Apocalypse
I love Scooby-Doo, so when DC added a Scooby book to the Hannah-Barbera revival line it immediately caught my attention. In Scooby Apocalypse, we get a glimpse of what it would be like if the Scooby...
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He-Man / ThunderCats
As with many of my generation, two cartoons virtually defined the high-adventure genre of techno-fantasy during my formative years. Both ThunderCats and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe featured...
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Sonic the Hedgehog
I never would have guessed that Sonic the Hedgehog and Archie Comics would be the ones to revitalize my interest in superhero comics. For reasons I won’t go into immediately, I walked away from both...
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Disney Kingdoms comics
I just happened to be in the Magic Kingdom when I noticed a comic book on the shelf at the Haunted Mansion gift shop, Seekers of the Weird. I didn’t pay much attention. I flipped through the book and...
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