Finally got around to see it. It has been out for a while, and you still need to prebook seats to get a good spot. Anyway, saw it in 3D, and the glasses worked really well. I knew not to try and focus on stuff that weren’t supposed to be in focus. That’s what hurts [...]
Archive for the 'Sci-Fi' Category
House of Suns
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Dec 30th, 2009 | Viewed 450 times
A very different book by Alastair Reynolds. In this book humans have long colonized our galaxy and split into many different sub-species and sub-civilizations. One such sub-civilization is the shatterlings. They are clones who’s purpose are to explore the galaxy. The particular faction we follow are all clones of a woman who’s childhood is one [...]
Absolution Gap
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Dec 30th, 2009 | Viewed 464 times
Catching up on my book reviews, so here is yet another book I just read by Alastair Reynolds. This book is the continuation of the story in “Redemption Ark”. In that book we left a shipload of refugees on a habitable planet after fleeing from the Inhibitors, a machine intelligence who’s task is to prevent [...]
Stargate Universe
Posted in Sci-Fi, TV-Shows on Oct 4th, 2009 | Viewed 1009 times
Yay, a new sci-fi show!
(May contain spoilers!)
I sat down yesterday and watched the first double episode of Stargate Universe. I have to say they made a pretty good first episode there. I also liked the first episode of Atlantis, but this one was much better told. They used the familiar story device of jumping between [...]
Pushing Ice
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 726 times
Well, since I’m on a book review roll here, I might as well review another book I read this summer (mostly on the train to and from Oslo). “Pushing Ice” is one of the books by Alastair Reynolds who does not take place in the Revelation Space universe. It was published in 2005.
Summary: The story [...]
Revelation Space
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 593 times
Revelation Space is the first of (so far) five Sci-Fi books by Alastair Reynolds that take place in the same universe, but only book one (Revelation Space) and book three (Redemption Ark) are about the same people. Reynolds have also written several other Sci-Fi books in other variations of a future universe. Reynolds has a [...]
Altered Carbon
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 582 times
I’m currently reading the “Altered Carbon” trilogy by Richard K. Morgan. (On the second book at the moment.) This is high quality Sci-Fi. Raw and brutal and yet it makes you wonder how the future of humanity will turn out.
In Morgan’s universe human consciousness is stored in a small chip at the back of the [...]
District 9
Posted in Movies, Sci-Fi on Sep 15th, 2009 | Viewed 433 times
Hmm, where to start … Now this is one odd movie. It is sort off a story about racism and segregation/apartheid, and is actually set in South Africa. The suffering part here are aliens. They arrive in a spacecraft, and for some reason unknown, or maybe not picked up by me, they cannot take care [...]
Star Trek – The Original Series
Posted in Sci-Fi, TV-Shows on May 23rd, 2009 | Viewed 2210 times
Finally got around to watch the entire three seasons of the original Star Trek show from 1966 to 1969 (I have just seen random episodes before). If you like Star Trek, it is well worth watching. It gives you a lot of backstory for the Star Trek universe and the full extent of Roddenberry’s utopic [...]
Star Trek XI
Posted in Movies, Sci-Fi on May 17th, 2009 | Viewed 111 times
Yeah, so I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night.
If you haven’t seen it, and are planning to, you may not want to read any further as there may be a few spoilers.
Now, I’m not a trekkie, although I have seen more or less everything of Star Trek. I liked the new [...]