Don your tights and capes ladies and gentlemen. Here, in no particular order, are my top 5 superheroes. Superman is no brainer. He’s the original superhero. He’s got it all, super strength, flight, invulnerability, and whatever the plot needs him to have. Superman is the hero who inspires us to be better than we are. …
Right folks, here in no particular order are my top 5 wizards: What can I say about Gandalf? Well a lot, but for the sake of all of us I’ll keep it short. Gandalf is awesome. He’s basically the model for the wizards we have today. He’s wise, capable, and not afraid to be funny…
You know what sucks? Being the twentieth century’s equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe and receiving barely a fraction of the recognition that pumpkin head had. I’m talking of course about the one, the only, the eternally plagiarized, H.P Lovecraft! For those unaware of Lovecraft, and why I and a growing number of others are sporting…
Who doesn’t love to eat? Nothing gets the appetite going like a five page description of a feast in almost annoyingly exact detail. And the undisputed modern master of food-porn is none other than George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Fire and Ice, the basis for the Game of Thrones television series. Anyone…
If I’m frank, this is the Top 5 of the most brilliant, incredible and awesome Sci-Fi and Fantasy books known to man, right before your very eyes. Exaggerated slightly? More adjectives? : ) 5) Angels and Demons – Dan Brown. A solid novel addressing the religion and science feud, showing there constant disagreements to one…
The House Targaryen keeps its secrets well, and the foremost of those secrets is that keeping dragons is an exercise in futility. Every man needs a good pet. It shows mastery over something. It shows power. The pet you choose says something about who you are. It represents you. A dog would be too ordinary….
Who doesn’t love a good detective story? Femme fatales, crime bosses, gruesome murders, and fairies? Wait, one of those things is not like the others. Unless you’re reading the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. The Dresden Files is a series of fantasy mixed with hard-boiled detective fiction. Are they worth checking out? Well, I’ll be…
I have a little bit of a confession to make. I really, really like the Star Wars Expanded Universe. There, I admitted it. I will concede that not every example of the EU has been a shining example, but there is one part that stands on its own tier. I am of course talking about…
Here in no particular order are my top 5 classic science fiction novels. Dune for those who haven’t read it is one of the greatest works in science fiction. Written in 1965 by Frank Herbert, Dune weaves a story of politicalintrigue, ecology, and religion in humanity’s distant future. The story centers on Paul Atreides, a…
I seem to be reviewing a lot of Neil Gaiman literature recently and that’s because, to be perfectly honest, the man is a genius. One of his best books that I’ve had the pleasure to read is American Gods. American Gods is a love letter to the back roads and towns of America while simultaneously…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the move version of J.R.R Tolkein’s book, The Hobbit. It was released late 2012. The movie follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins some 60 years before the events of The Lord of The Rings. The wizard Gandalf the Grey comes to Bilbo’s door and starts all kinds of trouble…
Out of the vast science fiction library, every once in a while a book will come along that becomes an instant classic. A novel that captures the imagination, evokes emotion, and stirs thought in the reader about what could be. For me, these are the novels that do just that – novels that define science…
