Category: Reviews

Alien Sex! Bombs! Robots! Pathos! 0

Alien Sex! Bombs! Robots! Pathos!

Mystech: I weep for the future. (Wired) LOS ANGELES — Creators of the Sci Fi Channel’s forthcoming Battlestar Galactica miniseries promised that their “re-imagining” of the 1970s classic would be darker and grittier. In...

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French Press

The adorable French press I ordered finally arrived. Had to shop around a bit to find one that was suitably antique looking so I could use it at home as well as recreationally, but...

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Umberto Eco’s Baudolino

While the embers of Constantinoplefade under the star-dappled skies of the 13th century, I close the cover on Umberto Eco?s Baudolino.After an unfulfilling quest under Brown?s banner in The Da Vinci Code, I found...

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The Da Vinci Code

I just finished The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Revisiting the antagonist from Angels and Demons, Robert Langdon, The Da Vinci Code explores Langdon’s encounters with the secret world of Grail legends and...

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Neal Stephenson Rewrites History

(Wired Interview) For the prince of hacker fiction, looking backwards is another way of seeing the future. Neal Stephenson has always been fascinated by history. Cryptonomicon explored the science of secrets during World War...