I know I haven’t posted any Christmas stuff this year. SciFi
doesn’t have a lot of Christmas specials and I have run out in the last couple
of years. But I’ve come across another one! This is a Fantastic Four movie
based on the early 2000s movies. Basically it’s a fluff piece where Sue wants
to have a Christmas party for her family and to try to help Ben get into the
Christmas spirit. But will this interfere with Reed’s plans for the holiday?
It’s a fun story!
A children’s book, but one of the greatest science fiction
books ever written. Jon is from a planet far away. A planet so far advanced
that they have designed a way to step through a door and be on another planet.
They decided the Earth wasn’t worth it though and closed up the door to our
planet long ago. But one night when Jon is trying to get a better view of the
stars, he falls back into the old door and lands on Earth with no memory of his
past or his planet. All he knows is that he doesn’t belong…
The earth is dying so a team is sent into deep space to see
if they can find another planet to live on. And once again we have to save Matt
Damon. Maybe not the best scifi I’ve ever seen but also not the worst.
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A crossover between Star Trek the Original Series and a
western titled Here Comes the Brides, this book finds Spock stranded in 1860
Seattle with no memory and only knowing that a. he is not human and b. there
was something he needs to do. He is taken in by one of the main character of
Brides Aaron Stemple who passes him off as his nephew Ishmael and gives him an
accounting job. As Spock tries to find his lost memory, the crew of the
Enterprise is desperately trying to find out what happened to their first officer
and friend. A fun book with lots of western and scifi cameos including Paladin,
Dr. Who, Han Solo, Apollo and Starbuck, Little Joe and Hoss Cartwright, Bart
Maverick, Matt Dillon, Lucas McCain, The Rawhide Kid, and the Man with No Name.
Another fun fact is that Mark Lenard who plays Spock’s father Sarek also plays
Aaron Stemple in Brides.
Alex Rogan lives in a trailer park. There is an arcade game
in the park called Starfighter. Alex gets the highest score and finds out that
it was not just a game but a recruitment program for an alien race and he is
taken into space to help aliens defend their universe. A fun movie, although
Alex does whine a lot.
A series of seven episodes where you played as Commander
Keen, aka 8 year old Billy Blaze, who defends earth from alien attack with his
raygun and pogo stick. I remember this game was fun with slugs you had to jump
on with your pogo stick. I don’t remember what “episode” I actually played. I
do remember it was fun though. You can find Commander Keen on Steam if you’re
interested in playing.
Based on a book that I have not read, Ready Player One is
about a virtual reality world called the OASIS and the people who compete to
control it. It’s the year 2045 and the world is a mess. It is such a mess that
people escape into the OASIS spending most of their lives there. One of these
players is Wade Watters who plays as a character named Parzival. Wade is one of
many Gunters who are trying to get the Easter Eggs that the late James Halliday
hid in the OASIS. The person who finds all the keys will own the OASIS. Also
out to get the keys in the evil IOI who wants the OASIS for themselves. Wade
gradually gains a group of allies and together they beat IOI. The movie is
great and the cultural references are spot on. I have been told that they took
great liberties with the text of the book, but since I have never read the book
I enjoyed the movie for what it was.
