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Ah, 1958. I remember it well.

That was the year I was nine years old and quality movies like Terror in the Midnight Sun were being made. Actually, Terror in the Midnight Sun is not at all what I’d call a “quality movie.” But it is what I watched late Tuesday night into the wee hours of Wednesday morning as part [...]

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Posted 21 October 2009 † Roscoe § horror § movie § science fiction ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Space Vulture

Space Vulture, the science fiction novel coauthored by Gary Wolf and Archbishop John Myers, and published in 2008 by Tor, has recently been added to my home library and is currently among my nightly reads. Much is made in the promotion of this book about the life-long friendship that has existed between this book’s authors. [...]

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Posted 02 June 2009 † Roscoe § books § science fiction ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,

Two new books

… have recently been added to my home library. 30 Days of Night: Eternal Damnation, by Steve Niles and Jeff Mariotte. This book’s teaser, found immediately inside the front cover: Helena and Forrest kept closing the gap. Five yards now … Four … The people stayed put, glaring at the agents. They still looked as [...]

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Posted 08 August 2008 † Roscoe § books § horror § science fiction ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , ,

Early links for Sat., 2008 May 10

Mssv :: Neal Stephenson on Science Fiction I took the afternoon off today to attend a symposium on Science Fiction as a Literary Genre at Gresham College. However, the main reason I went was because Neal Stephenson (author of Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Quicksilver, etc) was the keynote speaker. Aside from being one of my favourite [...]

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Posted 10 May 2008 † Roscoe § news ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: , , ,