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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Steampunk Visual

The move is finished and I have finally put the computer back together. Got the emails (mostly) checked, so I decided to get caught up on my shows on Hulu. One of the recommendations that the site has given me is one of the first live action sci-fi web series to feature the steampunk genre, called Riese: Kingdom Falling. As a web production, is generated so much interest last December that it was bought and aired on SyFy.

I will check it out and see if it is worth recommeding.


 

Saturday, November 6, 2010

The Pathfinder

I recently read the preview short story, called "Expendables," by Orson Scott Card. It is a collection of episodic chapter prologues from his upcoming new book, Pathfinder. If anybody remembers the Ender series of books and the spin-off Ender's Shadow series, this next endeavor is a greatly anticipated return to science fiction for Card. Here is a 'trailer' for the first book in this new series coming November 23: