Strider's Sci-Fi

The Locus Awards have been handed out for the last 33 years, and often predict who will end up being nominated each year for the Hugo Awards, the prime fan chosen set, and the Nebula Awards, the main industry selected prize group. I should probably also mention that the Nebula Awards will be handed out [...]

There are a few tasty movies this time, starting with Cloud Atlas, a very complex book turned into a very ambitious movie. I missed this one in the theaters because of real life getting in the way, I am looking forward to finally seeing it. There is also Frankie Go Boom, not a genre flick [...]

The first trailer for Ender’s Game is finally out, and it looks like they stayed quite close to the book. Of course, it has been years since Orson Scott Card signed the contract to give them the rights to make it, so one would hope they had used that time well. This one should be [...]

Just in case somebody managed to miss the news, The Hobbit hits the big screen this weekend! I don’t need to mention this is based on an amazing book of the same name written by J.R.R. Tolkien, nor that it is the prequil to Lord Of The Rings, both as a book and series of [...]

If this trailer is any indication, The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones may be a very interesting movie indeed. Based on the book of the same name written by Cassandra Clare, it is the first volume of The Mortal Instruments series, which means if it does well there are more stories ready and waiting to [...]

A different kind of End Of The World movie, World War Z is based on An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks, and the screenplay done by J. Michael Straczynsk (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Thor, etc.). Brad Pitt liked it enough to be part of the movie project, and when they made the [...]

Congratulations to this years Hugo Winners as announced at ChiCon 7 last week. There are some amazing stories in the mix, you should check every one of them out.

The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has an audio book available as a podcast series that I would like to recommend. It has all the Steampunk goodness of the written format without the need of focusing your eyes on the printed page, and thereby getting distracted. Not terribly surprising, considering the author had a hand in [...]

The short list for this year’s 2012 Hugo Awards was posted online this weekend, and includes a ton of great authors and programs. But I have to say, as much as I am excited about books from my favorite authors, it is the authors I don’t know about who made the list that excites me [...]

The obvious must-see movie this time around is The Hunger Games, and it is good to know that it is still possible to tell a story important enough that it needs no sparkling vampires to draw ones attention. The book was well done, I can’t wait to see how the movie turns out.