Posts Tagged ‘fantasy’

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. The movie wasn’t […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Sep 21, 2007

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 the countryside […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 18, 2007

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 […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Nov 16, 2006

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.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 20, 2005

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 review of it. […]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Dec 9, 2004

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