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Archives for March 2015

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 1

March 29, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 3 Comments

The Titan's Curse: Chapter One

Lesson one: Sneak up behind it and stab it in the face!

At last I have time to get back to Percy Jackson! I can’t think of anything terribly clever for this intro, so let’s dive right into the first full installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse…

My Rescue Operation Goes Very Wrong

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Filed Under: Michael Reads, TTC Tagged With: Fantasy, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, stab it in the face, Thalia, The Titan's Curse

IGN Review: Pillars of Eternity

March 28, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

Hi everybody – I’m overdue for another post, both on the Farscape Rewatch and Michael Reads Percy Jackson front. Things have been busy preparing for the blog tour for the New Aeneid Cycle re-release, ECCC 2015 this weekend, and Norwescon the next.

I hope to have something new up soon, but in the meantime, take a look at this IGN video review of the just-released Pillars of Eternity. If you’re like me, you consider Baldur’s Gate 2 and Planescape: Torment some of the best PC RPG experiences ever,  and the people behind PoE would seem to agree with us. As the IGN reviewer says, it “feels like Neil Gaiman is playing dungeon master.”

I haven’t had time to actually PLAY this yet, but I’m anxious to dive into it.

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Filed Under: Gaming Tagged With: Baldur's Gate 2, Games, Geek Interest, IGN, Obsidean, PC Games, Pillars of Eternity, Planescape: Torment, RPG

Guest Geeks: Tiffany Pitts Gives Us Xenomorph Cupcakes

March 24, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

It’s Wednesday again, and time again for another Guest Geek post! I’ve got something a bit different for you this week. It’s a combination of something geeky, disgusting, and delicious, courtesy of fellow geek and author Tiffany Pitts. (Check out her book at the end for some humor-laced sci-fi. Also a cat!) She also happens to be an artist when it comes to baking, and I mean that “disgusting” in the previous sentence in a very positive way. But enough of my yammering. I’ll hand things over to her. Get ready for…

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Filed Under: Featured, Guest Geeks Tagged With: Alien, baking, cupcakes, Geek Interest, Science Fiction, Tiffany Pitts, Twinkies, xenomorph

Farscape Rewatch: “Season of Death”

March 23, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 4 Comments

You know, given how many times plans don't work on this show, you'd think there'd have been an episode titled "Plan B" long before this…

It’s ironic, perhaps, that the episode called “Season of Death” features a resurrection, but this season makes up for that soon enough…

Season 3, Episode 1:
“Season of Death”
****3/4 out of *****

“We’re going to bring him out here, and see how HE likes the cold!”
“What if he likes it?”
“…ONE! PROBLEM! AT A TIME!!”

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Sci-fi Movie Trailer: Ex-Machina

March 22, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

I just caught word of this movie, which looks to explore the ramifications of artificial intelligence, at least according to one person’s vision. As a sci-fi fan who sometimes writes about this sort of thing, too, I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.

It’s been released in the United Kingdom already, to apparently very favorable reviews.
Ex Machina comes to theaters in the United States on April 10th.
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Filed Under: Movies and TV Tagged With: Cyberpunk, Ex Machina, Geek Interest, movie trailer, Science Fiction

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Starting Point

March 20, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 14 Comments

Cyclopses be crazy!

Cyclopses be crazy!

Having finished The Sea of Monsters, and gathering my thoughts to say at least a little about what I thought of the book as a whole, I’m realizing that reading only about a chapter a week makes it a little harder to keep track of my feelings about the book, or even the book itself. In my memory, it’s been spread across a longer period of time than my experience of reading The Lightning Thief was. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Featured, Michael Reads, TSoM, TTC Tagged With: Fantasy, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Predictions, Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse

Guest Geeks: Seren Myamoto Anticipates the Singularity

March 17, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

A Memory in the Black, book two in my cyberpunk series The New Aeneid Cycle, just got it’s Booktrope re-release last week. So what could be a more fitting Guest Geek post than this one from electronica musician and fellow geek Seren Myamoto? Please welcome her as she talks about the Singularity, her love of the cyberpunk genre, and what we’ve got to look forward to from the technology the future! (Also, check out the music in her bio at the end. Besides being a geek, this woman’s got one heck of an amazing voice.) [Read more…]
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Filed Under: Guest Geeks, Top 5 Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Cyberpunk, Deus Ex, Geek Interest, Ray Kurzweil, Science Fiction, Seren Myamoto, space travel, Transcendent Man

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