Mort(e) by Robert Repino
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Utterly humorless. Thousand year old ants somehow make animals sentient and give them hands to defeat the eeeevil humans. Tired, woke enviro-propaganda thinly disguised as, uh, SF or something. A cat searches for its long lost dog lover. Or something.
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Category: scifi
Quick Review of “Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View”
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View by Elizabeth Schaefer
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I’m sure that on some planet far away there are original, entertaining stories that enthrall and entertain. This is not that planet. This is a collection of trite fan-boy fiction that adds nothing to Star Wars lore. The “From a Certain View” should give a clue that these are retellings of Star Wars vignettes from differing perspectives: Jawas finding the R2 unit, storm troopers aboard Leia’s ship, Sand People, etc., blah, blah, blah. What it really translates to is, “There’s nothing new here.” Don’t waste your time or money.
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Quick Review of Falcon and the Winter Solider and Loki
You can give these two a pass, but for slightly different reasons. Falcon and Winter Soldier has gone full anti-US/anti-capitalist and spews the standard woke nonsense. The new Captain America is a grimy musclehead who needs a shave and has no concept of what Steve Rogers stood for as the iconic Cap. He beats a compassionate, thoughtful terrorist to death with Cap’s shield and stands there reveling in blood-soaked red, white, and blue. How pithy and edgy. All the characters are sympathetic to the terrorists who just want a better world, no matter who they have to kill to get it.
Loki is a grim, nihilistic, self-indulgent mess. The last episode started with an homage to all the woke warriors through time, including Greta Thunberg. It’s written from a secularist, human point of view, so there is nothing and can be nothing outside ourselves. There is no grace, no God, nothing but chaos. Loki gives his sister/self from another timeline a passionate kiss. Nuff said.
First Liner
“My name is Li An Po. In the third year of Empress Wu Zetian’s reign I learned the mystery of traveling through time.” #shortscifi #amwriting #timetravel
Zek’s World: Resistance
In the end, many of the resistance groups simply faded away. Others claimed they were responsible for the cataclysm that destroyed the Dominion–and the jump gates, but none could prove it. Mankind had a savior, but one who doomed them to isolation on a thousand different worlds.
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