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25 Days of TNG, Day 7: The 10 Best Recurring Characters

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Josh Roseman

The 25 Days of TNG continues on Escape Pod with Day 7: The 10 Best Recurring Characters. 25 Days of TNG, Day 7: The 10 Best Recurring Characters

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25 Days of TNG, Day 6: The Best and Worst of Season 2

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Season Two is generally considered to be the worst of all the TNG seasons, and with good reason: there were some truly atrocious episodes. Of course, the Borg were introduced in Season Two, so it can’t be totally discounted. The … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Apollo’s Outcasts” by Allen Steele

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Josh Roseman

On the whole, Apollo’s Outcasts is a good book, a fast read, and a story that is accessible not only to the YA audience but to an adult one as well. Allen Steele has been writing for a long time, … Continue reading →

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25 Days of TNG, Day 5: Meet the New Ship, Not the Same as the Old Ship, Part 2

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Yesterday, we looked at the exterior, engine room, and bridge of the new Enterprise. But the bridge wasn’t the only part of the ship where we spent a lot of time, even just on Deck One. Two other rooms were … Continue reading →

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25 Days of TNG, Day 4: Meet the New Ship, Not the Same as the Old Ship, Part 1

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Josh Roseman

The Enterprise-D, while retaining the general shape of the original ship, was very, very different. Even to this point in the films, we’d only seen ships that kept the hard-edged, militaristic look of the Enterprise: the Reliant was a kitbash … Continue reading →

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25 Days of TNG, Day 3: The Best and Worst of Season 1

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Given how underwhelming most of the first ten episodes of TNG were, it’s a wonder the show didn’t get cancelled. Had it aired last year (instead of 25 years ago), it wouldn’t even have gotten past three airings. We’re lucky … Continue reading →

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25 Days of TNG, Day 2: Episode Review — “Encounter at Farpoint”

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Josh Roseman

The 25 Days of TNG continues with a review of the pilot episode, “Encounter at Farpoint”, 25 years to the day after it first aired. 25 Days of TNG, Day 2: Episode Review — “Encounter at Farpoint”

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25 Days of TNG, Day 1: An Introduction : Escape Pod

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Today on the 25 Days of TNG: an introduction to my introduction to Star Trek. 25 Days of TNG, Day 1: An Introduction : Escape Pod

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Book Review: “Wrayth” by Philippa Ballantine

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Josh Roseman

I also think this book suffers in some ways from being the series’s Empire Strikes Back. Geist was more a stand-alone novel, and Spectyr set up what’s going on in Wrayth. But Wrayth is clearly a ramp-up to the showdown … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “The Long Earth” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Josh Roseman

The main bulk of the story is Lobsang and Joshua traveling westward and discovering the various life-forms that have developed in the Long Earth. As they go, they discover that something is upsetting the higher-order creatures, forcing them eastward (toward … Continue reading →

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Short Film Review: “Play Dead”

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Play Dead is the story of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse in Miami, Florida. A short film made on-location, it follows this unlikely group of survivors as they escape the zombies, band together, and seek out a place where … Continue reading →

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TV Review: “The Booth at the End”

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Josh Roseman

I found Booth to be strangely compelling. I didn’t know how much I would like it when I first started watching, but it caught me right from the start. Though the writing is deliberately obfuscatory at first — sometimes annoyingly … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Ink” by Sabrina Vourvoulias

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Josh Roseman

I do think that Ink and stories like it — such as the film A Day Without A Mexican — do need to be told. Without getting political, I feel confident in saying that the US is getting more and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Griff the Invisible”

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Griff the Invisible is about a young man named Griff who lives alone in Melbourne, Australia, has very defined habits, feeds stray cats, and works in the shipping department of what I believe is an import-export firm called WW Enterprises. … Continue reading →

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Product Placement: the Next Generation

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Josh Roseman

So what happens when authors start having to account for these new revenue strategies? My best guess: multiple versions of the story — B&N gets copies of my book where Andrea uses a Nook; on Amazon, she has a Kindle; … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Josh Roseman

I honestly don’t think Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a bad film… but then, I’m biased, because I’m a huge fan of the TV show. If I wasn’t a fan of the show, I think I’d rate the movie much … Continue reading →

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Web Series Review: “Harry Potter and the Ten Years Later”

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Josh Roseman

The Harry Potter phenomenon has spawned countless fan-created works of written fiction, musical awesomeness, and re-cut music videos. It has inspired thousands of people to be more awesome than they might otherwise have been. And that’s good. But now it’s … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Death’s Daughter” by Amber Benson

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Josh Roseman

I have a thing about Death stories. My favorite is, of course, the Death of the Discworld (black cloak, scythe, TALKS LIKE THIS), followed by Neil Gaiman’s perky goth-girl Death of the Endless. Somewhere on the continuum is Piers Anthony’s … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Kiss the Dead” by Laurell K. Hamilton

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Hmm… okay, so, we start with police procedural, and our hero shows up on the scene. She’s got a crap-ton of weapons and abilities, and she uses them to be a monster and save the day, sort of, except that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Ted”

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Josh Roseman

Sometimes movie trailers try to be too cute. That is to say, they hide the entire story from the viewer, or try to create mystery where there is none. And sometimes movie trailers tell you exactly what the movie is … Continue reading →

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