Category: Reviews

FalloutSeason1Review
Gaming
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Fallout Season 1

Created by Graham Wagner, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Lisa Joy, and Jonathan Nolan, Fallout depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retro-futuristic society and a subsequent resource war. The survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as

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Kathryn Adams

2024 Hugo Awards – Three Novelettes

This year, the first two of the Hugo Novelettes I read consisted of cozy and light-hearted ways of looking at how society can treat its vulnerable members versus how it actually does. I followed those up with a story in the form of a scientific treatise that illustrates how one piece of technology can change

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Invincible Season2

Created by Robert Kirkman, Invincible Season 2 takes place one month after the events of Season 1 and follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) after the Earth-shattering betrayal from his father. Mark is trying to get his life back on track as he makes new adversaries and allies, all while trying to suppress his greatest fear:

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Saint of Bright Doors

“Your father abandoned us. We were unchosen, cast out of his eschatology. We are going to destroy your father’s cult and salt the earth where it falls.” Fetter’s mother rips off his shadow immediately after birth, and almost as immediately starts his training. He commits his first killing at age eleven (a grand-uncle on his

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Directed by Adam Wingard, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire follows up from the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong with an all-new adventure. It pits the mighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within the Hollow Earth that challenges their very existence as well as the existence of humanity.

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Kathryn Adams

2024 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy #1)

“If a civilization is not capable of keeping a book from burning then perhaps it wasn’t ready for whatever knowledge was held within.” Livira is a little girl living in a tiny, unprotected village in the dustlands. Evar Evantari is a young man who’s lived his entire life trapped in one library chamber with four

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Directed by Gil Kenan and written by Jason Reitman, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire follows the Spengler family who have decided to leave Summerville, Oklahoma, and return to the iconic New York City firehouse where the original Ghostbusters have taken ghost-busting to the next level. When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, the

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children #9)

Children of the Doors know about being mislaid… Antoinette Ricci, better known as Antsy, returns to the world of the Wayward Children. Only this time she’s dragging along most of the main characters of the previous stories as they break the “No Quests” rule of their school for former fairy tale adventurers. People who have

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