Tag: science fiction
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Frankenstein’s Influence Over Two Centuries
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While living in Switzerland, Lord Byron (Yes, that Lord Byron) held a writing competition among some close friends. The goal: Write the best horror story. Among the close friends were John Polidori, author of The Vampyre, and Mary Shelley. Unknown to Lord Byron, Shelley would eventually craft one of the…
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Book Review: “Steelheart” by Brandon Sanderson
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When he was eight years old, protagonist David Charleston watched his father die at the hands of Steelheart, a superhuman “Epic” with massively destructive powers and apparent invincibility. But David saw the Epic bleed, and he swears that he’ll see Steelheart bleed again. Now, ten years later, he’s setting out…
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Link-N-Blogs: Oct 4, 1013
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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”–Voltaire 1) Science: Good or evil? As science and technology advances, we find ourselves continuing to wonder how far are we willing to push the boundaries. When Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein, Or The Modern…
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Webcomics, Part VII: Schlock Mercenary
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Written by Matthew Pardue After the last two webcomics, I thought I’d take us back to something with a story. A twelve-year-long story with lots of smaller stories inside it (I promised myself I wouldn’t make an Inception joke). This also marks my first science fiction review (unless you count…