Tag: Starship Troopers
NEAR-PERFECT MOVIE (Spoilers) REVIEW: ALIENS!
In the first of two columns, Steve deconstructs and reviews James Cameron’s “Aliens,” the first sequel in what proved to be a profitable franchise. What’s he got to say? Read it and find out!
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 8/27/2017
Brian Aldiss, WSFA Small Press Award, ST: TNG, floating rocks (unobtanium?) Starship Troopers sequel, Jay Kay Klein convention photos and the Pixel Scroll
RETRO DAYS: ROBERT A. HEINLEIN and SPIDER ROBINSON
This week, Steve tries to go Back to the Future but ends up in the past, where he meets Spider and Jeanne Robinson as well as Robert and Virginia Heinlein! Come with him and see!
Imágenes de la interculturalidad en Star Trek
Star Trek was the first science fiction television show to deal seriously with multiculturalism and the "other."
MOVIE REVIEW and a TV Pilot: CHAPPIE, AN UNDERRATED SF MOVIE,...
Steve returns with two reviews: a film and a TV pilot. The film's a good one; the pilot not so much. See what you think!
Review: Crash, by Guy Haley
Who wouldn't be discombobulated, finding oneself expelled from suspended animation amid the remains of a starship scattered across an alien world?
How Big is a Book?
How big is a book? SF & Fantasy books were slim volumes in wire racks until market forces created the massive tomes we're used to today. What happened?
MY YEAR IN REVIEW—Looking Backward and Forward!
Steve celebrates his first year of blogging for Amazing Stories online.
Heinlein’s YA Novels From Scribners and Other Things, continued
Heinlein's YA (Juvenile) work is still generating praise and controversy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S JUVENILES: Are they still good? (Part Two of...
Steve posits some similarities between Robert A. Heinlein and Captain America in this continuation of his examination of the RAH "juveniles".
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S JUVENILES: Are they still good? (Part One)
I seem to be unable to do single columns about stuff I’m passionate about. Heinlein is no exception. Robert A. Heinlein, who was characterized...
SOME OF THE BEST YA SF EVER: The “Winston Juveniles”—Part One
Back in the Good Old (or Bad, depends on your point of view) Days, fiction—especially SF—that was written for a teen audience was called...
A Defense of Starship Troopers the Novel (and Why the Film...
Comparison of Startrip Troopers novel and film.
The Iron Man Cometh
Welcome internet traveler. I will be stockpiling neatly organized bits into a collective known as a blog along this portion of your journey. Do...
Will the Real Tony Stark Please Stand Up
Over the past few decades the uber rich have had an increasing influence on our technological future: Peter Diamandis funds various space-oriented X-Prizes, one...