A deep time sci-fi novel about accidental uplifting not-quite the target species, the search for a new home, and the inevitable conflict between those two.
It was a Wild Ride.
Comment by FutureSjut: I need to stop calling everything a “wild ride”.
A very nice graphic novel about a group of friends in a Definitely Totally Normal Summer Camp Where Nothing Weird Is Going On At All.
This has been enjoyable, but I have the same worry on this new one as on last year’s season: this will not age as well as the older seasons did, because it is referencing mostly current events that I do not necessarily see entering the public consciousness.
This stand-alone novel once again takes the reader into a Very Weird Wales, this time one with very, very harsh winters and a humanity that actually does the sensible thing and hibernates.
Obviously with some exceptions, otherwise this winter story would be rather dull.
I liked it, but I liked the other books I’ve read by him better, and while I would not call the ending disappointing I somehow would liked some.. more?
Scavengers Reign takes place on Vesta, a strange planet somewhere along the original travel route of the interstellar cargo ship Demeter 227, where it stranded due to… reasons. Several members of the crew made it into escape pods and are now stranded on Vesta, dealing with survival and strange local life forms.
This is, in my opinion, a very good series, and with it’s limited length easily watchable. The design of the life on Vesta is great, and the whole thing feels like a fever dream during most of it. In the best possible way.
The biggest issue with this movie is the fact that it is the prequel to Fury Road, and it is utterly unable to live up to that.
As a movie in and of itself, it is… fine? Mostly? Dementus is a deeply uninteresting and at times unintelligible villain, and showing the whole plot within the triangle between Gastown, the Citadel and the Bullet Farm was not a great decision.
However, compared to Fury Road it’s nothing but boring, uninteresting cinema.
Viel schönes dabei.
This season is a continuation of S01/02 and the movie in that setting, characters and places stay the same, and a stand-alone-thing in that a completely new story arc plays out. I do not want to get into spoilers, but as with the other seasons this was A Delight to watch, and if you’re in the mood for some mostly-lighthearted scandinav-ish modern day fantasy story, go and watch all of it <3
The long-awaited sequel to Shades of Grey gives us further insight in Chromatic society, tradition and politics, as well as into the background of the whole world.
Where the first book gently snowed it’s weirdness on the mountaintops, the second one turns all of it into a landslide – and as with every proper landslide it’s a nice, far away spectacle until it suddenly slams into you.
As with the first book, I cannot recommend this highly enough. And I really want to read more of Fforde’s stuff. And apropos more: third book WHEN?
A very much adult animation piece about a mixed-race japanese outcast on a quest for revenge against the four white men who were in Japan around the time of their birth.
It is stunningly beautiful and well told, but at least for me not at all binge-able: I needed a bit after every episode to let it sink in before going to the next. It is also bloody, brutal, and occasionally explicit, which might be related to the previous statement.
And while I have gushed about it before, I will do so again: E05, The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride, is a marvel, weaving several narrative strands including a bunraku-play together to form what is easily my favourite episode of the season.
I am very much looking forward to Season 02 of this.
