by mike | Apr 6, 2015 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This should be an easy one for you. What sci-fi show am I thinking about? It involves a starship traveling the galaxy on a deep-space exploratory mission. The captain is usually found in the company of his first officer and the ship’s doctor. Its plot is as much a...
by mike | Mar 30, 2015 | Death, Holocaust, Life, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
Simon Moya-Smith I have written a great deal about the abuse of this country’s indigenous People, and also about the travesty that was the Holocaust. This sobering guest article, first published on the website of the Indian Country Today Media Network, links these...
by mike | Mar 23, 2015 | Medical Thrillers, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
As far back as Dr. Frankenstein creating his monster, there are many stories about the gross misuse of science and technology leading to disastrous results. Perhaps Ian Malcolm, the chaos theorist in Jurassic Park, said it best. When addressing John Hammond, whose...
by mike | Mar 9, 2015 | Mystery Novels, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
The Coyote myth is well known in many Native American cultures, especially out here in the western U.S. In the Creation stories of some tribes he represents the Creator himself, but for the most part Coyote is known as a messenger, a trickster, or a clown. In the...
by mike | Mar 2, 2015 | Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
As a mere slip of a lad in the 1950s, I totally enjoyed (and had the crap scared out of me by) the numerous science fiction and horror movies spawned during that decade. Paranoia ruled in the ’50s, folks being worried about—in no particular order—the threat of...
