When it comes to female fictional characters, I know my type: the stoic, strong, emotionally-detached loner with a burden (maybe a chip?) on her shoulder. NAKAJIMA, Youko (12 Kingdoms), KISSHU Arashi [...]
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Image credit: @24_mango So, almost like every other person with access to a movie theater, I’ve become infatuated with Frozen, though you’d more likely to find me humming the “Snowman” song as opposed [...]
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Cinder by Marisa Meyer is marketed as a “sci-fi retelling of Cinderella,” complete with its cover of a cyborg foot dressed in a bright red pump. As a big sucker for a good fairy tale retelling, I was [...]
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My best friend K and I are doing a “buddy read” of Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale, which turned out to be just a solo read for me since she backed out. And yes, we wanted to readit because we know … [...]
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Hello and Happy 2014! It’s just a bit into the first week of the new year and it’s taken me that long to finalize what I want to accomplish for this blog and how I want to direct my anime-watching … [...]
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For another great take on the issue of women authors in the sci-fi canon, Ian Sales has a well-written guest post over at the Little Red Reviewer. Sci-Fi Month is more than halfway over, and to be perfectly honest, I … Continue reading →
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I was supposed to post this yesterday to keep up my promise to post regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I have the flu, and a runny nose, and all sorts of yucky respiratory problems that I often get at … Continue reading →
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In the near future, scientists will have figured out a way to monitor and view dreams through psychotherapy devices. With the help of this technology, they will be able to interpret and provide therapy through intervention and thus will be … Continue reading →
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I don’t know what possessed me to even try to write a blog post about sci-fi manga. It’s like the attempt at making the Ender’s Game movie: it could be done, a lot of the great things that made the … Continue reading →
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I don’t know what possessed me to even try to write a blog post about sci-fi manga. It’s like the attempt at making the Ender’s Game movie: it could be done, a lot of the great things that made the … Continue reading →
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