I’m nearly a month behind on this, but I suppose if I could go a month with not knowing, plenty of other Battlestar Galactica fans could do the same. In a nutshell: we’ll be getting Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a 2 hour special, on November the 24th. After that, the Battlestar Galactica signal will go dead [...]
Scifi
Abandoning The Mote in God’s Eye
I can’t do it. I can’t finish the book. The Mote in God’s Eye has defeated me.
The Mote in God’s Eye was written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the pair that wrote Lucifer’s Hammer. When I read Lucifer’s Hammer previously, I loved it. Later, I read Ringworld by Niven alone, and found it to [...]
Interstellar drive in 2008? Afraid not.
I started reading The Mote in God’s Eye today, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The actual plot of the book starts off in the year 3016AD, so there’s a Chronology in the front of the book, outlining some of the major points between 1969 and the opening of the book. The first three entries, [...]
Is space colonization really feasible?
Being a fan of science fiction, I’ve always thought the idea of space colonization – sending off colony ships to inhabit new worlds – was a pretty neat idea. How many science fiction books have I read where the human race has expanded throughout the universe? What’s my favorite television show, Battlestar Galactica, focused on?
I’d [...]
Stargate SG-1 Season 1: Complete.
After staying up until 3AM this morning watching, I can now say that I’ve watched all of Stargate SG-1, Season 1 [amazon]. There were more than a few episodes in this first season that were, in all honestly, pretty bad. Some of them simply oozed with cheesiness, and I’m still not overly fond of the [...]
