Superman Week: Book #5

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Superman: Miracle Monday is an out-of-print book by Elliot S! Maggin that was released by DC Comics to coincide with Superman II. The book is set in the DC Universe of the 1970s: Clark is a TV Reporter and Lex Luthor is a mad scientist. In Miracle Monday, Superman is forced to deal with Lex Luthor, a demon from Hell and a time traveling history student. And this time, he might have more than even Superman can handle

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RIP Kage Baker

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From Green Man Review:

She died at 1:15 this morning. She had begun to have difficulty breathing early this evening; I gave her atropine and morphine for the breathing problems and the pain, but by about 8 PM she slipped into unconsciousness. The last thing she requested was to have her pillows adjusted – she said she was more comfortable, and after that she said nothing else. She became unresponsive very shortly thereafter, and by her own request, no heroic efforts were made.

Superman Week: Honorable Mentions

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I was noticing that there are very few books starring superheroes that are actually good. Generally when a superhero text novel is published, it’s a good bet that it’s going to be bad (and yes I’m looking at you Kevin J Anderson). But the ones that are good mainly happen to be Superman related books. There have been Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Iron Man and countless other novels and most of them aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. But Superman has made his mark in the novel world. To celebrate that I’m going to go over my top 5 Superman books. I’m including a couple comic ones also, since they’re too go to be ignored. Today we’ll start with the Honorable Mentions:

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Dollhouse retrospective

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Dollhouse ended this week, so it’s time we take a look back at the series to see what worked and what didn’t work. How a show with such a wonderful concept could have more than it’s share of clunkers. And especially how a show with such low ratings not only got a second season, but was able to air all of it’s episodes.

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Stephen Bury review

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Stephen Bury released two books, Interfaceand The Cobweb, in the mid 1990s. They were both political thrillers with a technical edge. It later came out the Stephen Bury was a pen name for science fiction writer Neal Stephenson and J. Fredrick George (and came out later that J Fredrick George was a pen name for academic George Jewsbury who is Stephenson’s uncle). These book are often overlooked in by  Stephenson fans, but are well worth checking out.

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Older Movies to Watch – Dark City

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Dark City is a science fiction noir movie that fuses a detective story and an alien experiment. Directed by Alex Proyas (from The Crow, I, Robot and Knowing) and written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David Goyer it is a dark vision reminiscent of Blade Runner. The story is a psychological thriller that questions the nature of reality with a 1940 noir backdrop and an alien race orchestrating it all.

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Infoquake review

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Infoquake by David Louis Edelman is the first book in his Jump 225 trilogy. It’s not often that you read a book that is basically about coding a computer program, but that is what David Louis Edelman has done. Infoquake is basically about a small coding shop that gets a contract with a huge firm that has exciting new technology and how it affects them. But, for the most part, the book is as exciting as coding a computer program.

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Get a Windup Girl ebook for free

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If anyone wanted to read Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi after reading my review, IO9.com has picked Windup Girl as it’s Bookclub Book of the Month.On the IO9.com page, there is a link to email the publisher and get a free PDF copy of the book, suitable for reading on any ebook reader. I encourage everyone to check out the book, you won’t be disappointed.

Older Books that You Should Read – Superfolks

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Before comic writers in the 1980s re-imagined what superheroes would do, Robert Mayer laid the ideas at their feet. Superfolks was published in 1977 (brought back in print in 2005) and is an essential stopping point between Harvey Kurtzman’s Super Duper Man in the 1950s and the superheroes of the 1980s.
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