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Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #51

Ancillary Justice

For December’s Book Club meeting we will be discussing Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Ancillary Justice is a tale of war crimes whose astropolitical scope is stunning. It’s a military thriller, a mystery, and a very complicated love story about sentient starships and hive minds in an alien civilization that looks a lot like something

Review: DOCTOR WHO: THE GREEN DEATH SPECIAL EDITION

(Special thanks to BBC Home Entertainment for providing complimentary DVDs for review; parts of this post originally appeared in slightly modified form on Blog This, Pal!) There’s nothing quite like early 1970′s Doctor Who - unlike the whimsy and timey-wimey of the current series, many stories during Jon Pertwee’s tenure as the Doctor of the

Send in the Clones: A Review of ORPHAN BLACK on DVD

(Special thanks to BBC Home Entertainment for providing a complimentary DVD set for review, and this post originally appeared at Comic Related) “How many of me are out there?” A small-time con artist on the run. A troubled cop. A suburban soccer mom. A grad student in biology. A woman suffering a lifetime of abuse.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #46

jumper Book Cover

For July’s Book Club meeting we will be discussing Jumper by Steven Gould. Jumper tells the story of David Rice, a teenager who escapes an abusive father using his ability to teleport. And as David explores his new power he learns that the world is literally his for the taking. But there are consequences too.

CNSC Podcast Episode 8: Upload Your Consciousness

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We sit down and chat with Mark McClelland, author of the novel Upload, the story of a man who uploads his consciousness into a virtual world to escape his criminal past. Play Now Upload The Novel Upload on Amazon

Armchair Scientist Digest #2

Welcome to The Armchair Scientist. We live in a time where new research regularly breathes life into the dreams of last year’s sci-fi authors. We just don’t hear about it on the news that often. So I’m here to bring you the most exciting of this month’s science crop culled lovingly from a variety of