She’ll be back.. she has the technology. She has the capability to build a sci fi event, better, stronger, faster (than it was before)..
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify the species of event involved. Remember that favourite game of yours? Who’s the better killer/reader/blogger?, Lets play.
In the above and below are quotes – see how many you can guess:
Little Red Reviewer is holding her annual Vintage Sci fi event.
Andrea: ‘I remember your gom jabbar. Now you remember mine! I can kill with a word.’
Us: are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?
Andrea: Y’know, this was supposed to be my weekend off. But noooo. You got me out here, draggin’ your heavy asses, through the burnin’ desert, with your dreadlocks sticking out the back of my parachute. You gotta come down here with an attitude, actin’ all big and bad…and WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SMELL?!
Us: I’m not even supposed to be here. I’m just “Crewman Number Six.” I’m expendable! I’m the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is! I’ve gotta get outta here!
Andrea: Follow the white rabbit…
Us: Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope
Andrea: Come with me if you want to live!
Us: This is a place for crazy people. I’m not crazy.
Andrea: Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It’s stupid, but I’m gonna do it, OKAY? Listen and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.
Us: By Grabthar’s hammer, by the sons of Morvan, you shall be avenged. The appropriate question is: when the hell are they?
Andrea: I know you people have been through a lot. But when you find the time… I’d rather not spend the rest of the winter tied to this fucking couch! Remember: You lose it here and you’re in a world of hurt.
If you’re thinking : “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Remember:
Andrea: I am your father.
Hasta la vista, baby!!
“There’s that word again; “heavy”. Why are things so heavy in the future?”
We come in peace…’ack, ack, ack’
13 November 2014
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Art It Up, Fantasy Review Barn, Not Yet Read, Tabitha, Tough Travelling
Art it Up. This is a weekly meme hosted by Tabitha over at Not Yet Read. The idea being to see if you can come up with some 
inspiration for a little sketch or doodle from your last week’s reading or just anything else in general. So, this week my reading has mostly been dreadful – too much going on at the moment!! I’m reading Ancillary Justice and The City Stained Red but couldn’t come up with anything for those so I’ve gone for an alien – to coincide with Sci-Fi November ’14 and also for a random person with a couple of swords which sort of ties in with Tough Travel’s theme for this week (named weapons – over at the Fantasy Review Barn – come on, this person at least is carrying two swords so it sort of ties in). They’re not terribly inspiring so you should probably check on over to Not Yet Read and see what’s going on there!
‘Say hello to my little friend’…
13 November 2014
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Fantasy Review Barn, Named Weapons, Tough Travelling
This week over at the Fantasy Review Barn we will be looking at NAMED WEAPONS as part of our Tough Travels through fantasy!! Definition:
Surprise! This is not from the Tough Guide but fits the spirit of it well. So let us say for this topic the weapon either needs to be A. Named, B. Famous, or C. Sentient. Thanks to Mogsy for the idea!
Godley Weapons
Zeus’s Thunderbolt and Thor’s Hammer – The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris
Swords
Michael’s Sword in the Dresden Files (think it’s called Fidelacchius), Jim Butcher
Fragarach – the sword that Atticus owns from the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
Sword of Gryffindor – Harry Potter
Sting – Bilbo’s and then Frodo’s sword from LotR by Tolkien
Shardblades – Oathbringer from Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance
People/Assassins
Graceling by Kristen Cashore – Katsa – a deadly assassin and the King’s favourite ‘weapon of choice’.
Smith (ex assassin) from Kage Baker’s – The Anvil of the World
Spark by John twelve Hawks – Jacob – suffers from a condition which makes him believe he is dead – this makes him the ideal candidate to become an assassin – no fear!
Other
Harry’s blasting rod – The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Jean Tannen’s Sisters from The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The One Ring – needs no other description!
Bits and Bobs..
Just returned from a wonderful event being held at Waterstones in Manchester where Ben Aaronovitch came to talk this evening.
Wow, this guy is very easy to like. He’s just incredibly easy going, laid back and amusing. It’s easy to see why his books are so good. He had no particular format to his evening. He talked a little and then simply asked if we had any questions. He was quite unashamed about his lack of pre-planning and I don’t blame him really as this way the event was very spontaneous. There was no shortage of questions and the answers were informative, rambling, funny and sometimes unexpected. We learnt a little ranging from architecture to jazz. I’ve only read the first in the series so far and it was very good – I will be tucking into the second very soon. Check out the covers – I think they’re rather excellent!
In other news!
I came home tonight to two rather lovely looking and totally different books which I’m really excited to read:
The Walled City (courtesy of Orion)
The Ice Twins by S K Tremayne (courtesy of Harper Collins)
And, I’m currently reading The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
And, I’m currently reading The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
What you all up to??
‘Me…. and….. my ….. shhhaaaaaadow….’
11 November 2014
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Secondary Characters, Top Ten Tuesday
The theme this week for Top Ten Tuesday over at the Broke and the Bookish is:
‘Top Ten Characters You Wish Would Get Their OWN Book’
I sort of struggled with this – as I came up with suggestions I realised that some of them had already had their own series developed and so some on this list may still fall into this category although I did remove a couple.
- The Marquis de Carabas out of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. A very interesting character and one that I would happily read more about.
- Lord Ermenwyr and nursie from Kage Baker’s Anvil of the World. This is a very engaging and entertaining read and Lord Ermenwyr and his (ahem) nurse make it even more so!
- Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series – you have to admit that Gaiman writes some very intriguing secondary characters!
- Stefan, the Vampire out of the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
- Sigrud, the Viking out of City of Stairs by Robert J Bennett. Without a doubt Shara stole this story but I definitely feel that Sigrud could carry his own book!
- Syl and Kaladin from Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings and Words of Radiance. I love this pair of characters. Love. Them.
- The Copper Cat from The Copper Promise by Jen Williams – what a bloody ace character. Give me more.
- Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings – a definite sidekick but one with his own very enjoyable character.
- Magnus Bane from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments
- Severus Snape from J K Rowlings HP – you have to love Snape. You do. Really.
Bit of cheating going on above as some of these are two for the price of one! But, rules are made for breaking.
Now it would have been easy to start this list with a couple of favourites – for example, Jean Tannen from Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastards. Now, I love this character, truly, but, first, he’s definitely no sidekick and second, Jean and Locke have pure banter going on – if you put him in his own book you’d lose all that witty repartee (or snark).
So, who would you like to read about??
