Pages Tagged “Cyborgs”

Reviews

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan ★★★⯪☆ Pulled together a consistent story from elements that were originally unconnected, but depended on the audience remembering the series and still felt like a clip show.
Cordwainer Smith: Short Fiction ★★★★☆ Paul Linebarger
Three mid-century science-fiction stories about the future of war, space travel, symbiosis, and the dangers of cutting off your own humanity.
Murderbot Season 1 ★★★★★ A pitch-perfect adaptation of All Systems Red. Alexander Skarsgård is dead on as the socially-anxious security cyborg who just wants to be left alone to watch its shows, but has to protect its humans from alien creatures, their own naivete, and rival corporations willing to kill.
Soonish ★★★★★ Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Fascinating, accessible, funny, and still relevant overview of cutting-edge tech, even though it took me 7 years to get around to reading it.

Cyborgs: Terminator Salvation and Surrogates
Finally got out to see Terminator: Salvation at the second-run theater. It was a passable action flick, though a bit overblown and tedious at times. I thought it was better than T3: Rise of the Machines, at least. T3 was too caught up in repeating the first two movies (a Terminator is sent back in […]
(Aug 2009)