MY YEAR IN REVIEW: A LIST OF 2015 COLUMNS  

I know I didn’t do a column every week of 2015; first we had to go visit my in-laws in Missouri to help them move into a “senior” facility, and then I took a month off for Christmas and New Year’s. So this year was a bit shorter than the last one. I’ll try to do better for 2016, I promise. I hope that if you missed any of my columns last year, you’ll be able to catch up with the help of this little list. I’ll give you the title of each one as an actual clickable link. So let’s get started, eh?

Figure 1 – Lisa Goldstein
Figure 1 – Lisa Goldstein

#81  BOOK REVIEW: Lisa Goldstein’s Walking The Labyrinth & 2014 Year-end  (1/1/15)
#82 Little ditty ‘bout Billie Sue and Dean  (1/9/15)
#83 ME AZAKI, YOU AZAKI, WE ALL AZAKI FOR MIYAZAKI!  (1/16/15)
#84 NEW FORMAT FILM REVIEWS: LUCY and MALEFICENT  (1/23/15)
#85 “CLASSIC” Movie Reviews, OUR MAN FLINT and IN LIKE FLINT (1/30/15)
#86 ROTSLER REVIVAL: Review of THE FAR FRONTIER and PATRON OF THE ARTS (rereleased) (2/6/15)

*NOTE: Beginning with #87, all published columns are misnumbered. So what was published as #88 is actually #87. I somehow lost track, and it’s too time-consuming to go back and renumber them all. This list follows the incorrect numbering scheme. Bleah.

#88 FILM REVIEWS: NEWLY-FILMED HEINLEIN in “PREDESTINATION”! (2/13/15)
#89 MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE: AMAZING STORIES’ FIRST YEAR (part 1) (2/20/15)
#90 MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE: AMAZING STORIES’ FIRST YEAR (part 2) (2/27/15)
#91 MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE: AMAZING STORIES’ FIRST YEAR (part 3) (3/6/15)
#92 WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER “HEROES”—or do we? “POWERS” debuts!  (3/13/15)
#93 NEW BOOK REVIEWS: Walter Mosley and Robert Charles Wilson  (3/20/15)
#94 MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE (Last Part): Amazing’s First Full Year (3/27/15)
#95 TWO MOVIES AND A BOOK: Reviews of The Good, The Bad and The….     (4/3/15)
#96 TRILOGY OF TERR..ible: Awful Movies “Snowpiercer – Left Behind – Last Knights”!    (4/10/15)
#97 Book review: “SUMMER of LOVE” by Lisa Mason IS A TRIP! (4/17/15)
#98
WHAT’S THIS FANTASY DOING IN MY MYSTERY / THRILLER? (4/24/15)
#99 MOORCOCK vs. ULTRON: Two Reviews (5/1/15)

Figure 2 – Avengers Age of Ultron poster
Figure 2 – Avengers Age of Ultron poster

#100 OPUS 100: A GOOD BOOK and a MOVIE (5/8/15)
#101 MOVIE REVIEW and a TV Pilot: CHAPPIE, AN UNDERRATED SF MOVIE, and SUPERGIRL (6/5/15)
#102
TV REVIEW: Netflix’s SENSE8   (SENSATE)  (6/12/15)
#103 CREATED: THE DESTROYER   (Book Series Review) (6/19/15)
#104 MOVIE REVIEW: POLTERGEIST (2015): “They’re here!” (Again…) 
(6/25/15)
#105 MOVIE REVIEW: INSIDIOUS 3—A Better Sequel  (7/3/15)
#106 AN ANNIVERSARY and a FUN BOOK (Review): “JUSTICE GIRL” (7/10/15)
#107 WRITING 101: WHERE DO I SEND THE SF/F BOOK I JUST WROTE? (7/17/15)
#108
Book Review: Dave Duncan’s Irona 700. (BTW—I’m baaack!) (8/21/15)
#109
LESLIE CHARTERIS’S “AMAZING” SAINT (8/28/15)
#110 REALLY “REACHING”—Jack Reacher is NOT SF/F!  (9/4/15)
#111
MARS! And Some Reviews…  (9/11/15)
#112
VCON, HOWDERSHELT REVIEW AND MORE ON SELF-PUBLISHING! (9/18/15)
#113
STEAMPUNK JEWELRY, VCON, PHILIP K. DICK STORY BUNDLE, AND MORE! (9/25/15)
#114
BOOK REVIEW (THE LAST PRATCHETT): THE SHEPHERD’S CROWN (Sob!)  (10/2/15)

Figure 3 – F & SF Cover Nov-Dec 2015 by David A. Hardy
Figure 3 – F & SF Cover Nov-Dec 2015 by David A. Hardy

#115 MAGAZINE REVIEW: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2015  (10/9/15)
#116
LASER BOOKS: Science Fiction from Harlequin Books?! (10/16/15)
#117
REVIEW—CONSTANTINE: A surprisingly good movie! (10/24/15)
#118
MOVIE REVIEW: FRANKENSTEIN (1931), Just in time for Halloween! (10/31/15)
#119
MOVIE REVIEW: NOSFERATU (1922), Copyright? What copyright?  (11/6/15)
#120
MOVIE REVIEW: UNIVERSAL’S MUMMY DEAREST (1932-33) (11/13/15)
#121
BOOK REVIEW: SATURN RUN by John Sandford and Ctein (11/20/15)
#122
SHORT FILM REVIEW: Alba Garcia’s TIME/SPACE REFLECTIONS (11/27/15)
#123
BOOK REVIEW: Stephen King’s BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS   (12/4/15)
#124
BOOK REVIEW: CHILDHOOD’S END by Arthur C. Clarke (12/11/15)
#125 didn’t appear in 2015; I took the rest of the year off to work on my office. Believe it or not, I’m nearly done clearing it up (it was basically a hoarders’ paradise… without the food items and vermin). Found some really cool stuff, some of which I’ll share with you in coming weeks or months.

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