How would you like to put on your chef’s hat and try your hand at a cooking competition? Not for you, eh? What if it were just a tabletop game? Where you’d take on the role of an alien chef serving up human beings? Yeah, now you seem intrigued. Over on Kickstarter, you can support…
For those that do not remember, five months ago I wrote a review of the opening chapter to an upcoming science fiction novel by the name of A Timeless Abandon. I gave it a glowing review, and stated that the book was something to look out for, because it was going to be amazing. Having…
It all ends here… …and begins again. *Cue friggin’ music.* Last time on the Week of Chaos, we brought you into a world where the essence of a man was destroyed with a single spark. After that, you were shown a soul obsessed with violence, digging his own grave in blissful ignorance. Now, there are…
You’d better have read the others. Last time on the Week of Chaos, we showed you what it really means to be alone in a crowd and the fear that comes with being lost in darkness. Now, a new kind of fear will come into play… In the future, the mind is sucject to the…
Two Boys Simon Kint (not his real name). It’s amazing how I can still remember the name of the kid who talked over and mocked my presentation on how sci-fi has influenced so many things in our lives. I was seventeen years old and this jumped-up, annoying little rhymes-with-skip kept begging our History teacher to…
The Fictionmonger picks up a crumb off the floor and grins at a thing which he hadn’t seen before. He leaves a link right here, then heads off the bed, because in the morning… …he’ll be tired, because he was wrapping presents all night, thus this will be posted automatically as a Christmas piece. CLICK…
Directed by David Fincher. Written by David Giler, Walter Hill & Larry Ferguson. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance and Lance Henriksen. R, 115 minutes (theatrical), 144 minutes (special edition). If you were to judge Alien 3 from its first thirty seconds, no one would begrudge you for getting excited. The 20th Century…
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement, adventure,…
I am not going to say that Interstellar is the best movie ever made. I’m not even going to say that it’s the best movie of the winter season. I’m also not going to say that it’s the best movie by Christopher Nolan, because it’s not. It’s not any of these things. What it is,…
You can tell a lot about a book by its first chapter. That’s because writers often use it for expressly that purpose. They have to sum up the tone, the characters, and the world, usually with only about twenty pages to work with. It’s no small feat, and that’s why I am so excited about…
Directed by Christopher Nolan. Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, David Gyasi, Wes Bentley, Topher Grace, Casey Affleck and Michael Caine. PG-13, 169 minutes. While watching Interstellar, something a friend of mine once said popped up in my head. He said, “Christopher Nolan movies are…
Let me ask you a question. What do you get when you mix an episode of The Twilight Zone with a Stanley Kubrick comedy? This: A music video made in the modern era that pays homage to the old 1950s-style science fiction films and television. In a grim future, the planet Earth is depleted of…
