Remembering Octavia Butler: two podcast recommendations
Two podcast recommendations to mark the 15th anniversary of Octavia Butler’s untimely death.
Category: Science Fiction
Kirby von Daniken: The Eternals
As I said in my Omac post, I didn’t care for most of Kirby’s Bronze Age work but The Eternals was an exception. Rereading them in TPB recently confirmed it …
Deus Ex Brother Eye: Omac, the One Man Army
Reading Jack Kirby in the Bronze Age made me wonder what his fans were smoking. Why did everyone keep talking about the guy who wrote Devil Dinosaur and The Demon as …
Mac Review: Bill And Ted: Face The Music
I recently spent probably a year trying to arrange for some friends of mine to see the first two Bill And Ted movies for the first time. Then, a few …
Octavia Butler’s Parables for a Troubled Time
Recently I revisited books by the late, great Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which are rather apposite reading material for our troubled times
It’s not easy to make the Earth catch fire
Some years back, I finally bought the DVD for 1961’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire. I’d wanted to see this British film ever since reading about it in Bill …