by mike | Mar 17, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
My sci-fi/comedy Bicycling “trilogy” became a foursome when I wrote Back on the Bike Path in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. But back in 2018 I rewrote and revised the crap out of the third book in the series. Once again the trilogy is complete. My revised...
by mike | Mar 3, 2022 | Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I presented this post in 2018, and when I recently checked, nothing had changed. This film was a box-office bomb. I don’t get it; I just don’t. Solo: A Star Wars Story, the second spinoff after Rogue One, has been around over a month—long enough for it to be...
by mike | Feb 17, 2022 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Why was this film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, much maligned? This post first ran in 2018. Through the years, it seems as if many of my Guilty Pleasures—films that bombed at the box office and/or with the reviewers—involve Nicolas Cage. The same is true of the...
by mike | Feb 14, 2022 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The long wait is almost over! (Drum roll here.) Jurassic World Dominion is scheduled to open in theaters on June 10th. I haven’t seen a film inside a movie theater in years, but I will make an exception for this one. I mean, it’s dinosaurs, right? Even better: it...
by mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Books, Fantasy, Humor, Publishing, Research, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
When the pandemic drove us indoors in early 2020 (and wiped out the NCAA basketball tournament; I’m still not over that one…), I found a number of ways to keep busy. At that point I hadn’t written a new book in years, but circumstances being what they were, I decided...
by mike | Jan 31, 2022 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Fantasy, Humor, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
It is about time to announce (trumpets, here) that I am hard at work on a new book! The Horrors of Harrmel, a Sword & Planet spoof, is a sequel to my 2016 novel, The Wizard from Harrmel, sub-titled The Weird Adventures of Bernie Smith on the Distant and Deadly...
