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Escape Pod, for shame!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Reviews

As a general rule, I love Escape Pod. The stories (and readers!) tend to be excellent, however this week must be the exception which proves the rule. Maybe it’s because I never got into the whole MMORPG thing but I found this week’s story to be a bad rewrite/adaption of Groundhog Day. […]

Tags: fantasy, podcast, Reviews, Sci-fi

Review: Pan’s Labrynth

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews

Mark’s Rating: 4 out of 5
A dark, brutal and depressing movie that touches the heart. Pan’s Labyrinth was imported form Spanish (original title: El laberinto del fauno) and is a modern fairy tale. Don’t let that fairy tale description fool you, this is no film for young children. The setting is somewhere in […]

Tags: fantasy, foreign, Movies, Reviews

50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953–2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foundation Trilogy, […]

Tags: Books, fantasy, Sci-fi

What High School Stereotype Are You?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Quizzes

You are a Geek. You were probably laughed at in high school by all the popular kids. But don’t worry, we understand why you got lost in the fantasy world, and we are viciously beating those responsible for your insecurity.
Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz.
Heh, no surprise in that result.

Tags: fantasy, geek, heh, Quiz

Review: Ghosts in the Snow

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

A while back on the advice of AWelkin, I picked up a copy of Ghosts in the Snow. I read it, loved it, got distracted and never wrote up any kind of review. A couple of weeks later, I read again. I still loved it but I still didn’t write up a […]

Tags: family, fantasy, foreign, Love, Reviews, Snow, weekend, writing