by mike | Jul 17, 2015 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Death, Editing, Publishing, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
In order to introduce my latest re-release, Warlord of Maldrinium (World After Death: Book One), I have to go way back in time. I’m talking 1978, just about when humankind discovered fire. At least movable type had been invented by then, because in that year I...
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 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 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...
by mike | Dec 9, 2014 | California, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
My previous posts in the “Films About Writers” series, Finding Forrester and Misery, featured fictional writers. In the 1979 movie, Time After Time, we have a real writer, H.G. Wells, put into a fictional story—with some interesting results. Wells—referred to as...
by mike | Dec 1, 2014 | Disaster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
It is not for lack of box office that the 2003 sci-fi/disaster flick, The Core, is a guilty pleasure, because it supposedly made back its production budget, and then some. It was, however, a critical disaster, with crummy reviews panning everything from its plot...
