Along with plenty of science fiction reviewed here at borg, we’ve covered “science fact” and making the world a better place through natural science and ecology and we love to review new cookbooks that come along, especially if tied to something we’re interested in. We also love superheroes, and it’s difficult to find a superhero […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce The new Saurian travel simulator tie-in companion book Saurian: A Field Guide to Hell Creek is a combination of several great things. It’s a non-fiction trip to a sort-of Jurassic Park. It’s time travel–the kind Ray Bradbury wrote about in The Sound of Thunder, where you are transported back to the […]
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The truth. Truth is the only way forward. Lies and misinformation can destroy any plan, even a good one. Created by writer Daniel H. Wilson in collaboration with the Michael Crichton estate, The Andromeda Evolution arrived last year 50 years after The Andromeda Strain was first published, the book that launched Crichton’s fame as master […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce One hundred years after surfer Duke Kahanamoku won an Olympic medal in swimming, surfing finally made it to become an official sport at this year’s games. A new book coming this month is using the sport of surfing to teach kids about science. Spinning out of writer-artist Kim Dwinell’s series of […]
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If there was a best time to be off-planet it would seem to be right now, right? Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineers Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir are the three astronauts of Expedition 62 currently working aboard the International Space Station, in its 20th year of consistently-manned orbit around Earth. Morgan […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce In Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, chemist and author Kathryn Harkup, author of A is for Arsenic, reveals the results of a thorough investigation into the scientific knowledge available to young author Mary Shelley at the turn of the 19th century when Shelley wrote the first science […]
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We’ve seen Netflix take this approach successfully with series like Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Take a Netflix successful series and splice in a standalone episode to surprise and please the fanbase. This time it’s for a series we pegged as one of the Top 40 of the past decade, the South Korean brilliant horror mash-up, […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Plumes are cool. I wear a plume now. This week the Doctor and friends turn up at the very event that was the real-life origin point of Doctor Who, the series, and in fact all of science fiction: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s summer at the retreat […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce So often big budget dramas dressed in sci-fi dress rise up the box office rankings, you might miss the best films, the ones that don’t need the big budgets or major stars, the refreshing sleepers that surprise you. One of those great surprises was Midnight Special, which I reviewed here at […]
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While we have all been busy here on Earth, the international assemblage of astronauts on the International Space Station have been moving on with their scheduled work week far up and away in Earth’s orbit. The Expedition 45 crew has been busy this month with biomedical science, Cygnus mission preparations, and routine maintenance. But this crew […]
