Let’s be clear about one thing: whatever other nonsense DC has pulled (coughnew52cough), Vertigo is a pretty cool imprint, and has published a lot of great stuff. Sandman is the obvious one, and Fables has done well for itself, too. But this is a science fiction blog, and as such if there’s one Vertigo title…
Ah, obscurity. That delightful property that allows you to feel vaguely superior for liking certain things because, hey, at least you had to go out of your way. And so let’s break in this series with a manga that really nobody has heard of, Hitoshi Ashinano’s Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou! Can’t pronounce that title? Not to…
The cover that launched a thousand hopes. You can imagine my delight when I discovered Podkayne of Mars at my local bookstore some months back. I was still fresh from Have Spacesuit, Will Travel—the book that made me a Heinlein fan—and here was another Heinlein book, with a female protagonist who wanted to defy social…
**Note, this list was written based on early impressions. It’s possible that some of these shows might trainwreck as they get farther along.** 5) Tsuritama: Can we even call this one science fiction? It’s got aliens! Well, okay, it’s got a kid who claims to be an alien with a magic hypno-squirt gun. Who talks…
So we all know the problem with the science fiction of the 50s through about the 70s or so: overly optimistic. If we can make it to the moon then surely Mars isn’t that much farther, right? Jetpacks and hovercraft for everybody! Well, they may have gotten that stuff wrong but here’s some tech that…
