Vacant is number four in the science fiction Mindspace Investigations series. The story takes place in the future in Atlanta, Georgia. There are people who have certain mental powers, and Adam is a telepath. Most of those who have developed powers like telepathy belong to the Guide, but Adam was thrown out for drug use.
This is a review of The Clockwork Dagger by Hanford native/Arizona resident Beth Cato. It … oh, wait. I feel that there is a question in the audience. What, you ask, is a clockwork dagger? (Go ahead. Ask. It will make you feel better.) Is it a self-throwing weapon? No. It’s a member of an elite force that answers to the queen of the land in a steampunk reality with fantasy elements.
I have never completed the book series but I have always loved and looked forward to the Hunger Games movies. I was especially looking forward to this one because I wanted to know what a Hunger Games movie would be like without actual hunger games taking place. This was a fabulous movie that did not disappoint.
Interstellar, a top contender for the Golden Globes, is a really hard movie to describe. On one hand, you have an incredible sci-fi space movie about saving the human race. On the other, however, there is the last act of the movie, which you will either love or hate.
I had my first flying lesson on my fourteenth birthday. What a birthday present! Now as Chief Pilot running an aviation business specializing in aerial surveillance, I fly from California to Texas, but writing was my first love. I started writing novels in the back of my parent’s small airplane when I was small enough to fit in the baggage compartment. When I was a child, my family took trips to grandma’s house in a single-engine four-seater. Since my parents had more children than seats, they put me in the baggage compartment. There was nothing to do back there. No windows. So I wrote stories and started my first book at age nine.
What do you do when you get rid of the death penalty, but you want to get rid of the people you would have executed? How about…put them on a space station? Send them supply ships, and if they kill each other, they solve the problem for you. That’s what happened on the Perdition station in Ann Aguirre’s Dred Chronicles. Havoc is the second book, and the excitement is as high as the body count.
The Maze Runner is the latest in the onslaught of Young Adult dystopian Sci-Fi being turned into movies, and I'd have to say that so far it has been my favorite.
We can start in 1963, when Doctor Who first graced British televisions until 1983, when it was cancelled. Resurrected by Russell T. Davies in 2005, it’s captured the hearts of American audiences quite recently, and it has only grown in popularity since then.
Marked is an interesting sci-fi mystery. It takes place in the future,(at a guess about 80 years) where some people have acquired mind powers, some telepathy, telekinetic, pre-cognition, and teleportation and most of them have joined the Guide. My main problem with this book is that it is number three in a series, (I don’t like reading books out of order.)
From the creators of Fringe, comes Almost Human a show set in 2048 where science and technology has advanced so far that crime has risen to unmanageable rates, forcing police officers to be paired up with lifelike combat androids. Part police drama and part science fiction, Almost Human stars Karl Urban as a gruff Detective John Kennex, who is forced to pair up with a discontinued model of androids who were created to be as human as possible and known as DRN’s. Michael Ealy has the incredibly hard job of portraying Kennex’s android partner, Dorian.
