TV #37 of 2026: Blake’s 7, season 1 Not mindblowing as yet, but certainly a solid slice of 70s British sci-fi. All I knew about this show going into it was that it was created and written by Terry Nation, better known as the guy who came up with the Daleks on Classic Doctor Who, …
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Book Review: Star Wars: Legacy by Madeleine Roux
Book #132 of 2026: Star Wars: Legacy by Madeleine Roux Three-and-a-half stars, rounded up, for this Star Wars tie-in novel that takes place between the movies The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. It’s a messier narrative than I would ideally prefer, with too many extraneous characters and a plot heavily revolving around Force …
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Book Review: The Aftermath by Ben Bova
Book #127 of 2026: The Aftermath by Ben Bova (The Asteroid Wars #4) This is marketed as the final entry in the Asteroid Wars sub-series of author Ben Bova’s Grand Tour, but it’s so disconnected from the main plot there that it’s really more of a spinoff sequel. (Plus the titular conflict technically ended in …
Book Review: Doctor Who: Shadowmind by Christopher Bulis
Book #126 of 2026: Doctor Who: Shadowmind by Christopher Bulis (Virgin New Adventures #16) I’m surprised this 1993 novel has such a poor reputation — including a 2.85 average rating on Goodreads — since I’ve found it to be a generally enjoyable time myself. A lot of the reviews complain that it reads more like …
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Book Review: Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
Book #123 of 2026: Sleep Donation by Karen Russell Interesting speculative premise here — an insomnia plague that’s killing people, the invention of a way to safely donate sleep to the afflicted à la blood transfusion, an Omelas child who’s potentially being exploited to power that, the discovery that someone else’s donation was tainted and …
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Book Review: Star Wars: Eyes Like Stars by Ashley Poston
Book #121 of 2026: Star Wars: Eyes Like Stars by Ashley Poston I swore off author Ashley Poston after not really caring for either Heart of Iron or Among the Beasts & Briars, but Star Wars lured me back with a new line of tie-in novels that Lucasfilm Publishing has described as offering “genre stories …
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Book Review: Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed
Book #119 of 2026: Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed I expected to like this literary science-fiction novel far more than I have, but in the end I think it delivers both too wide a scope and too slow of a plot, which blocks me from investing in either the characters or the events happening …
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TV Review: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, season 1
TV #35 of 2026: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, season 1 Doctor Who’s so-called wilderness years of 1989-2005 saw a wide range of possible story continuations both on and off the screen, some more official (either contemporarily or in hindsight) than others. This six-part webcast falls directly in the middle of that continuum — …
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Book Review: The Silent War by Ben Bova
Book #116 of 2026: The Silent War by Ben Bova (The Asteroid Wars #3) Too much of this novel reads like a simple repeat of its immediate predecessor — which I didn’t love in the first place — with the various companies still feuding with each other over mineral rights out in the asteroid belt. …
TV Review: Terminator Zero, season 1
TV #34 of 2026: Terminator Zero, season 1 I don’t watch a ton of anime, but I’ve really enjoyed this eight-episode Terminator series, which does a better job of molding the franchise to meet that format than The Sarah Connor Chronicles ever did with its own teen drama / mystery box approach. I also appreciate …
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