The Hangover (Funny but not as funny as advertised)
Cloverfield (Finally broke down and bought it)
The Forbidden Kingdom (Much better than I expected)
Not Quite Hollywood(A documentary on Australian explotation films and B-movies)
Point Blank (Finally got around to watching it to see how it
Stephen Baxter's Vacuum Diagrams. It's a collection of stories and novellas
that gives an overview of his Xeelee universe.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden belsidus2...@... wrote:
(Charlie Stross' Accelerando
SciFiNoir was Walter Moseley's Futureland.)
--- In
I'll have to give the second one a look because I felt the same way as you do
about the first. It was interesting but not very engaging.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden belsidus2...@... wrote:
(I didn't care for this one at all.
The second in the series, Shadow Valley,
It's a great comic. I can't wait to see some of their other work get published.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal ravena...@... wrote:
Received my copy of the graphic novel Bayou, yesterday. Really good,
strong, intelligent stuff. And it does my heart good, and gives an old
. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Steve Barnes on Hancock
To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 9:03 PM
Lots of authors have trafficked in low rent fiction in order to
make
ends meet. Barnes had
fare. So I have read a couple
of Valery Wilson-Wesley's Tamara Hayle novels. Still, as a standard,
I find these books a very low bar to step over.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, B. Smith daikaiju66@
wrote:
Lots of authors have trafficked in low rent fiction in order to
make
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wrote:
Ah, hecky naw, man! Sex doesn't bother me (the only thing I want in
this life is my life and more sex). Bad writing does.
~rave!
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, B. Smith daikaiju66@
wrote:
I've read it and I have to ask what
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It wasn't well written. Somehow Barnes and Due trafficing in low
rent fiction is perceived as laudable. Frank Lucas might have been
more noble than Nicky Barnes...but they were both still selling crack.
~(no)rave!
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, B. Smith
I hope they manage to pull this off. The trailer was perfect.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-watchmen-
0728_coverjul28,0,4606257\
.story
chicagotribune.com
What you need to know about 'Watchmen'
But they were in a different position than the people he referenced.
Will Smith has power. He is a major Hollywood player and he can use his
clout to demand changes. Other stars of his caliber(and lower on the
totem pole) do it so why can't he?
As far as the Tennyson Hardwicke novels go, I
I really liked his stuff up to Virtual Light. After that I lost
interest. My wife on the other hand loved Pattern Recognition and
Spook Country.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
(None of the others he did were that good. He was on fire when he
This sounds like a more a literary version of S. M. Stirling's Sunrise
Lands series.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chris Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This is a novel set in a Post Apocalyptic America that Diane Reims
practically raved about on NPR. I got it and it was, while not
Maybe Nantucket had some shortwave enthusiasts. CB bands would work
for short range communication as well.
I thought they had trouble with their normal communications after
the event happened but it's been a while since I've read the book.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, La Tricia
I haven't read Perdido Street Station but I have read The Scar and
Iron Council. Both are very good reads and I reccommend them. Of the
two I'd say that The Scar is the better book.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Chedder Bob
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Hey all:
I'm reading
I loved Ender's Game but I enjoyed each successive book set in that
universe a little bit less. One day I'll try to finish the series.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Nora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just finished Ender's Game. I already read Ender's shadow so i
kinda
knew the
I am reading it now and I agree
lois
B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Feast For Crows by George R. R. Martin. It was worth the
wait.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or
democracy.
But you cannot
A Feast For Crows by George R. R. Martin. It was worth the wait.
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella \(formerly
Tracey L. Minor\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you guys think were the best and worst speculative fiction
books of
2005. Please share with us why you made
Looks like I picked a good day to come back to the fold.
LKS,
I read a lot of alternate history and I am well versed on
Turtledove's work. Some of your complaints against Barnes are
leveled at all writers in the genre including Turtledove. I've seen
some pretty brutal discussions where
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