In "Arcadia" Iain Pears has given us a sci-fi fantasy that keeps you looking for answers. It carries mystery, danger, suspense, and just an overall array of genres to keep even the most diehard reader engaged.
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Theater Review (Philadelphia): ‘The Hard Problem’ by Tom Stoppard at The Wilma Theatre
The irony of 'The Hard Problem' is that, despite its insistence on the fact that the human brain is so much more complex than a computer, which functions via simplistic binaries and calculations, the whole play is reducible to a simplistic, and false, binary.
Read More »Interview with Ken Lizzi, Author of ‘Under Strange Suns’
Sci-fi novelest Ken Lizzi is the author of Under Strange Suns. Lizzi is an attorney and also the author of an assortment of published short stories. When not traveling, he lives in Portland, Oregon with his lovely wife and their daughter. He enjoys reading, homebrewing, and visiting new places. He loathes writing about …
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir
A runaway bestseller, the book boasts a simple but intriguing premise: with a mission gone wrong, NASA astronaut Mark Watney is accidentally stranded on Mars and needs to find a way to survive and get back to Earth.
Read More »San Antonio Film Festival Movie Reviews: Short Films (Part Two)
Of the dozens of shorts screened at this year's San Antonio Film Festival, some really stood out in terms of execution, creative vision, and dramatic heft.
Read More »Book Review: ‘I Become You,’ A Novel by Thomas Hughes
An s-f novel about a telepathic sheep proves entertaining and mind-bending.
Read More »Interview: Russ Colchamiro, Author of ‘Genius de Milo’
Being a writer isn't just what I do, but who I am.
Read More »Interview: Laura Liddell Nolen, Author of ‘The Ark’
"To this day, I can’t actually believe it when people tell me they read my book and enjoyed it."
Read More »Interview with David J Rodger, author of ‘Oakfield’
Drop the romance about being a writer – it’s a job, one you should enjoy but ultimately one you’ll have to make sacrifices to succeed in.
Read More »SXSW: Fire, Rodriguez, and Frazetta
It's a rare moment when two artistic talents you have admired for decades intersect in your presence. Robert Rodriguez has been one of my favorite directors since I saw 'From Dusk Till Dawn'. Frank Frazetta has been my favorite artist since his paintings began appearing on the covers of Tarzan and Conan books in the 1960s. At SXSW, I participated in a tour of the Robert Rodriguez Museum, conducted by Rodriguez. He explained how, like many others, he found the paintings of Frank Frazetta amazing and inspirational for his own art. He recalled how when he first met Frazetta, and saw his original paintings up close, he was amazed at the depth and detail that never appeared in any of the prints or book covers.
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