Identicals (2016) Release Date: March 26th, 2015 Cast: Lachlan Nieboer, Nick Blood, Nora-Jane Noone, Tony Way Director: Simon Pummell Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films Genre(s): Sci-fi Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Medium IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes Imagine having the life you loved, the life you always wanted, and having it taken away within […]
Rockstar Book Tours: Robison Wells Gives Us Insight on the Influences Behind His Upcoming Sci-Fi Novel “Dark Energy”
Dark Energy Author: Robison Wells Release Date: March 29, 2016 Publisher: HarperTeen Formats: Hardcover, eBook Genre(s): Young Adult, Science Fiction Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks Aliens are pretty awesome. They open up an incredible opportunity for storytelling and in the hands of someone like Robison Wells you’ve got to imagine you’re in […]
“Alive” is a Wonderfully Enigmatic Sci-Fi Thriller
Alive Author: Scott Sigler Release Date: July 14, 2015 Series: The Generations Trilogy #1 Publisher: Del Rey Genre(s): Science Fiction Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Low GoodReads | Amazon I need to be careful in how I approach this review. Alive is one of those books that it’s really better for […]
“A Borrowed Man” Mixes Literature and Science Fiction For a Futuristic Mystery
A Borrowed Man Author: Gene Wolfe Release Date: October 20, 2015 Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Science Fiction, Mystery Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Mild GoodReads | Amazon A Borrowed Man has one of the most unique premises for a mystery novel that I’ve seen in quite a while. I’m honestly not the biggest fan of the genre so […]
Get Your First Look at “Passenger” With This Stunning Book Trailer!
Passenger Author: Alexandra Bracken Release Date: January 5, 2016 Series: Passenger #1 Publisher: Disney Hyperion Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Young Adult GoodReads | Amazon | BN | iBooks There is just about a month left to go before Passenger, one of 2016’s first must-read YA novels of the year, releases and we couldn’t be […]
Tor/Forge Books Continues Their NASA-Inspired Fiction Initiative With the Release of L.E. Modesitt, Jr.’s “Solar Express”
Solar Express Author: L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Release Date: November 3, 2015 Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Science Fiction GoodReads | Amazon | BN A few years ago NASA and Tor/Forge book publishers announced a joint initiative to promote the development of NASA-Inspired Works of Fiction. The idea was simple – bring together authors and scientists to create scientifically plausible […]
The Paramount Vault Brings A Bunch of Full Movies to YouTube – For Free!
Do you like movies? Do you like free movies? Good news, then. Paramount has uploaded around one hundred movies to YouTube that you can watch in full for free. They have set up a brand new, separate YouTube channel called The Paramount Vault where you can find playlists with dozens of […]
David Levithan’s ‘Another Day’ Gives Us A Second Perspective On A’s Story From ‘Every Day’
Author: David Levithan Release Date: August 25, 2015 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Genre(s): Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, LGBT Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Moderate GoodReads | Amazon Almost three years ago now I wrote one of Nerdophiles’ first book reviews on David Levithan’s Every Day. It’s a very emotional book about a very […]
Three Narratively Fatal Sci-Fi Tropes
I love science-fiction. Like, I love it so much. And because I love it so much, I am intimately familiar with it’s tips, tricks, and tropes. Some I love, some I recognize the necessity of regardless, and some are so stale they break my teeth. To be fair, storytelling is […]
Dinosaurs Are Coming! … in Victor Milán’s ‘The Dinosaur Lords’
The Dinosaur Lords Author: Victor Milán Release Date: July 28, 2015 Publisher: Tor Books Series: The Dinosaur Lords #1 Genre(s): Fantasy GoodReads | Amazon | BN There is one thing about Victor Milán’s upcoming book The Dinosaur Lords that really sticks out to me every time I hear someone talking about it or I read something new […]
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