The original science fiction story written in 1818.
According to lore, Shelley was at a house party with her husband and Lord
Byron. Byron challenged everyone there to write a ghost story and Shelley came
up with this text. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein who creates a
monster that he then abandons to the world. As you can imagine this doesn’t end
well. I don’t really want to say more just in case you’ve never read the story,
but I think we all know what happens.
The original Alien movie first introduces us to Ripley and
the other members of the Company. The characters land on a planet to discover a
vicious alien species. What follows is a fight for survival on the Nostromo.
The movie is a great one and a classic case of science fiction horror.
When Anakin and Obi Wan catch a plague on a distant planet,
Anakin has to decide which one to save. Of course we all know who he’s going to
save, but it is one more nail in his coffin so to speak. Yesac is one of my
favorite Star Wars writers and this is a great indicator of their skill.
Way back in 1967, audiences were introduced to Khan Noonien
Singh in the episode “Space Seed.” This movie serves as a sequel to this
episode and is considered to be one of the best Star Trek movies of all time.
It certainly gives us all the makings of a good movie. A villain that is
actually sympathetic to some extent. A very emotional death scene of a favorite
character. Basically shortly after the events of Space Seed the planet where
Khan and his people were marooned got destroyed when a nearby planet blew up.
Khan wants revenge on Kirk for leaving them there to die.
Twelve years prior to the beginning of the book “Calamity”
appeared in the sky above earth and gave certain people superpowers.
Unfortunately, the people who gain superpowers, the Epics, become sort of evil.
A group of average people called The Recknoers set out to destroy the Epics
once and for all. The main protagonist of the first three and a half books is
David who is on a personal vendetta to kill the Epic Steelheart after
Steelheart killed his father. I really enjoyed this book and I realized what
kind of dystopia books I actually like. I call them superhero dystopia.
The first season of this show was the best. It took place in
2018 and took place on a futuristic submarine that patrolled the oceans. The
first season would usually end with a real life marine biologist who would
explain the actual science behind the show. There was an episode where they
found the Library of Alexandria. There was a ghost ship episode. They were just
fun. I think one of my favorite characters was Darwin, the dolphin, who due to
technology could communicate with the crew. As the show went on they tried to
make it more “science fictiony” by bringing aliens and time travel into it and
I just feel it lost some of its charm.
The book that started the media phenomenon. The movie is a
lot more action packed than the book, but the general idea of the story remains
the same. John Hammond has cloned dinosaurs and wants a group of
paleontologists to sign off on his park. Hammond is a lot more of a corrupt
business man in the book than he is in the movie. Also Malcolm is not Jeff
Goldblum. But still the book is good except when Crichton tries a little too
hard to convince you of his science.
