Posts tagged classic SF
It’s too bad she won’t live…
Feb 28th @ 6:00AM
…but then again, who does? Fantastic last words to a fantastic movie. Blade Runner can be considered a vis major in and of itself. Directed by Ridley Scott, a master of film, and based off of the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” written by Phillip K. Dick. This movie has always stood out from a lot of sci-fi and has remained an important piece of the cinematic pie. I never actually knew why until I watched it last night. Having [...]
The Invisible, Not Man
Feb 24th @ 6:00AM
The last book I will read by H.G. Wells (for now), entitled The Invisible Man, is definitely not his best work. My mind would hail War of the Worlds as his epoch of science fiction mastery. Yet this latest experience of mine was still fairly enjoyable, though some might call it dry. Wells looks at the idea of invisibility, and the quest for it, as something utterly selfish. He discusses at great length all the many reasons to pursue such [...]
Exploring the Animal Within
Feb 14th @ 6:00AM
Ah, The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells’ foray into the psychological landscapes of humanity and the beast within. For those who are unaware of this story, it is about a shipwrecked man who is picked up by a vessel on its way to a small, unknown island. Here he finds himself with two human companions, Montgomery and Moreau. The latter of which is a London surgeon whose experiments into vivisection were the catalyst that drove him from society and onto the remote island. [...]
War of the Worlds
Feb 8th @ 6:00AM
Another good one from H.G. Wells. Published in 1898, it may not be the first book to ever exploit the idea of interplanetary travel or the now cliche alien invasion. But it is easily the most well known and the many themes set forth in War can be seen throughout the last and current century. Taking for example Independance Day or The Day the Earth Stood Still. Both movies, separated from each other by almost 50 years, show humanity as helpless [...]
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Feb 4th @ 6:00AM
1865, the end of the war between the states, as well as the original publishing year for Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. I always thought it was ‘A Journey’, but it is not, so from here on out, don’t say it like that, you’ll be harshly corrected by not only me, but your conscience saying how much of an idiot you are for saying it wrong.
This was quite different from Wells’ The Time Machine, mostly due to the [...]
Really Discovering, The Time Machine
Jan 22nd @ 6:00AM
This will be the first in a long series of reviews covering what I hope to be many of the great and classic SF novels. It started when I wrote my Sci-Fi Masters post. I’ve read some of them, am familiar with most of them and their stories, but am not as thoroughly acquainted with the actual reading of them as I like. So when I saw a bunch of Verne and Wells sitting on the bookshelf at the [...]
