Sanderson said he was writing this book he was thinking of
the trope of a boy and his dragon but changed it to a girl and her spaceship…Spensa
is on a planet that is constantly attacked by alien starfighters. While
exploring the caverns of her home, Spensa discovers an ancient, sentient ship.
With the help of the ship she can realize her dream of being a pilot and
defending her people from the aliens.
One of my favorite science fiction movies of all time and one I watch nearly every day on July 4.
When aliens invade the world in July it is up to a group of survivors to defend
our planet. It has World of the War vibes, but these aliens came a lot further
away than Mars. Enjoy it this Fourth! There is sequel. It’s not really worth
your time.
Taking place during and after the 1996 movie Independence
Day this is the story of what was happening in the Middle East. United in
common interests, the British, Muslims, and Jews must work together to defeat
the aliens especially when they learn that the aliens are planning a ground
invasion. It was a fun addition to the franchise.
In 1978, David Freeman is abducted by a sentient ship named
“Max.” He unknowingly travels to a distant galaxy and although he doesn’t age a
day, eight years have passed since he was abducted. David is brought to a
government facility where they want to conduct experiments on him. Max in turn
has managed to crash and erase his own memories on how to get home. Max lures
David back because he implanted the coordinates to his own planet in David’s
brain. Max and David both need to figure out how to get home. It’s a great
movie.
Star Wars, Lego style. Basically you play through the movies
of the Skywalker saga, starting with The Phantom Menace and ending with The
Rise of Skywalker. You can play with a variety characters from Luke Skywalker
to Kit Fitso. You can also buy expansion packs for The Mandalorian, Ahsoka,
Star Wars Rebels, The Clone Wars, Rogue One, Solo, and the Bad Batch. The jokes
are funny. For instance, Obi Wan is mad that his lightsaber doesn’t have two
sides when they encounter Maul and Anakin sleeps with a teddy bear. The only
thing I don’t like about this game is that you can’t change the outcomes. Qui
Gon will still die. Anakin and Ben Solo will still fall. But it is still a fun
game to play!
Sometime during the 21st century, humanity lost a
war with an artificial intelligence that started harvesting humans for their
bioelectric energy. Humanity lives within the Matrix, a vast computer program
which is made to resemble 1999. Our main character is Neo who is rescued from
the Matrix because Morpheus, the head of the resistance, thinks he might be
“the One.” The person prophesied to liberate humanity. The first of four
movies, this is the only one I have seen. It is a decent story if a little
weird.
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The first of 13 books introduces us to John Carter, a Civil
War vetern, that one day wakes up on Mars. The Martians refer to their planet
as Barsoom and John meets two different races on the planet service the more
alien Tharks and the more humanoid Heliumites. John learns that since his
muscles are used to the more dense gravity of Earth he is sort of a superman
here on Mars. The story is fun if a little sexist in parts due to its age being
first published in 1912.
Princess of Mars (2009)
They modernized this version. Instead of the Civil War, this
John Carter is from the Afghanistan conflict. When he is wounded he is
teleported to Barsoom which in this version is not Mars but a planet in the
Alpha Centauri stellar system. The story then proceeds pretty close to the
original book.
John Carter (2012)
A more direct adaption of the original book but with an
explanation for how John got to the planet that makes so much more sense than
one day I woke up on Mars. They were setting this up for a franchise but since
it was a bomb, Disney decided not to continue. I am disappointed about this
because I really enjoyed the movie. Personally I think it was poor marketing on
their part. 1. Their major tagline was “a movie a hundred years in the making.”
2. It was released the same weekend as the Hunger Games.
