The Burr in the Burbs

I know this observation is a couple of weeks overdue, but I figured I’d go ahead and put this out there.  Did you happen to notice that there were some changes in this year’s Academy Awards show on television?  For one thing, even though they doubled the number of Best Picture nominees from five to [...]

Haven’t you ever wished you had one more hour in your day?  Many of us have fantasized about having more time, when in fact, we already have all the time there is. Not so in the Midnighters universe, an inventive trilogy of speculative YA fiction by Scott Westerfeld.  I just finished reading book one, The Secret [...]

Remember the Tom Cruise flick, Minority Report?  It was based on the classic story by Philip K. Dick.   Set in the near future, the police were able to detect future crimes and stop them from happening.  The BBC will soon air a new series with a similar premise called Paradox. It actually sounds quite [...]