1. Star Wars (Episodes 4-6)
These movies are still my all-time favorite movies. The first book I read was Empire Strikes Back and I still have it.

2.The Matrix Trilogy
These films in my opinion are the perfect example of what speculative fiction should do. These movies present lets the audience ponder complex questions while giving the viewer a great visual experience.

3. The Terminator
Its just so damn fun! The book still makes a great read.

4. The Abyss
This is the first movie to make me cr… Continue

First, the Bad News:

My laptop is still down, off somewhere on the West Coast, getting fixed (presumably) by the Tech Squad that services my extended warranty on this increasingly unreliable conglomeration of circuitry. And the warranty expires come December. At that point it won’t be cost-effective to subsidize some uber-geek’s sailboat or second vacation home so I’m about to slap a DNR on another machine with an average life-span of 3 to 4 years. (3 to 4 years minus the better part of an accu… Continue

Finally got to see ALL of the Battlestar Galactica finale. My DVR cut off before the final 9 minutes of the overlong Daybreak Part Two unwound. Thank the Lords of Cobol for Hulu.com.

So, now I’m left with a disturbing theory (beyond the idea that there’s a race of Centurions, somewhere out there, that have had another 150,000 years to evolve…).

It goes something like this:

The reimagined Battlestar Galactica with James Edward Olmos as Adama unwinds 150,000 years in the past. At the series end… Continue