#note.//
anime
season1.2013.FINISHED.not sure if there are any more seasons?!
Giants hunt remaining humanity.
SPOILER:
Humans can become Giants.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Blade Runner
#note.//
Story starts in Los Angeles, 2019, which in about four years will be the past-future.
It is loosely based on the novel,
Story starts in Los Angeles, 2019, which in about four years will be the past-future.
It is loosely based on the novel,
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
author.Philip K. Dick
#note.//
This book was in list of books read in 2008-2011.
The movie Blade Runner was loosely based on this novel.
It is set in the year 1992, which is now our past.
#note.//
This book was in list of books read in 2008-2011.
The movie Blade Runner was loosely based on this novel.
It is set in the year 1992, which is now our past.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
The Monkey King.2014
#note.watched on the way too AP's wedding
The Office
#note.
I was hooked by Jaimie when I return from Italy into watching it.
#actor.//
Steve Carell as Michael Scott, an ass regional office manager with possibly a soft heart.
Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton, hippy-ish oddball. He's been in a religious cult!
I was hooked by Jaimie when I return from Italy into watching it.
#actor.//
Steve Carell as Michael Scott, an ass regional office manager with possibly a soft heart.
Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton, hippy-ish oddball. He's been in a religious cult!
"You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader".
Aibou: The Movie III
#note.//
Watched on the plane ride back from AP's wedding.
It is the third movie that comes from a popular Japanese TV show.
It uses the classic sherlock-watson tool to drive the crime.mystery plot.
It tries to touch on bigger, political debate in Japan.
>query.should I binge on the TV series. Can I even get it on Netflix streaming.no
Watched on the plane ride back from AP's wedding.
It is the third movie that comes from a popular Japanese TV show.
It uses the classic sherlock-watson tool to drive the crime.mystery plot.
It tries to touch on bigger, political debate in Japan.
>query.should I binge on the TV series. Can I even get it on Netflix streaming.no
Transcendence
#note.//
Watched on the plane ride back from AP's wedding
Watched on the plane ride back from AP's wedding
Amazing Spiderman 2 - The Rise of Electro.2014
#note.//
Watched on the plane ride back for AP's wedding.
Watched on the plane ride back for AP's wedding.
Maleficent
#note.//
Watched on plane ride back froom AP's wedding.
Average retelling.
If I were Maleficent, a powerful, magical being who was stripped of my ability to fly by a lover, I would have destroyed the entire kingdom in one huge massacre.
Watched on plane ride back froom AP's wedding.
Average retelling.
If I were Maleficent, a powerful, magical being who was stripped of my ability to fly by a lover, I would have destroyed the entire kingdom in one huge massacre.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Knights of Sidonia
#creator.Tsutomu Nihei
#FINISHED.season1.20140909
#note.//
Usual storyline.monsters spawn in deep space come to destroy last vessel of humanity.
Where do the monsters get all their energy?
Monday, September 8, 2014
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
#author.Richard A. Clarke
#FINISHED.20140715
#note.//
Richard has moved on to cybersecurity.
Bill Clinton likes this book. No wonder, it shows in a very favorable light.
#FINISHED.20140715
#note.//
Richard has moved on to cybersecurity.
Bill Clinton likes this book. No wonder, it shows in a very favorable light.
The Naked Sun
#author.Isaac Asimov
#FINISHED.201407
#note.//
Another murder mystery.
Isaac is already thinking about how technology can accentuate our inherent phobias and allow them to create entire society.cultures around these phobias. Here is such a world, Solaris.
#FINISHED.201407
#note.//
Another murder mystery.
Isaac is already thinking about how technology can accentuate our inherent phobias and allow them to create entire society.cultures around these phobias. Here is such a world, Solaris.
Caves of Steel
#author.Isaac Asimov
#FINISHED.20140715
#note.classic Asimov looking from the 50's into the near-future of distant worlds colonized through hyperdrive; about 3000 years into the future. We live in domed cities of steel.
#FINISHED.20140715
#note.classic Asimov looking from the 50's into the near-future of distant worlds colonized through hyperdrive; about 3000 years into the future. We live in domed cities of steel.
Republic of Thieves
#author.Scott Lynch
#FINISHED.20140724
#note.//
It was actually the third book in a series. Oh well, I'm not going to read the others anyways.
They read like the script writer for Xena (TV series) decided to write a novel: entertaining but not really engrossing.
#FINISHED.20140724
#note.//
It was actually the third book in a series. Oh well, I'm not going to read the others anyways.
They read like the script writer for Xena (TV series) decided to write a novel: entertaining but not really engrossing.
A Scanner Darkly
#author.Philip K. Dick
#FINISHED.20140612
#note.//
drug induced 60's, writes in the 70's about the near-future of 1994. Now a part of our alternate past.
#FINISHED.20140612
#note.//
drug induced 60's, writes in the 70's about the near-future of 1994. Now a part of our alternate past.
True Names
#author.Vernor Vinge
#FINISHED.201407
#note.short story, also a near-future look and how games & virtual worlds could evolve.
#FINISHED.201407
#note.short story, also a near-future look and how games & virtual worlds could evolve.
2312.2012
#author.Kim Stanley Robinson
#sync.//books read in parallel in bundle. All the books look to the near future.
Expanded Universe.Robert A. Heinlein (1939-1980)
Earth.David Brin (1990)
Parable of the Sower.Octavia E. Butler (1993)
Eon.Greg Bear (1985)
#note.//
We begin, obviously in the year 2312. This is Kim looking to the near-future from 2010s or about 300 years into the future.
#sync.//books read in parallel in bundle. All the books look to the near future.
Expanded Universe.Robert A. Heinlein (1939-1980)
Earth.David Brin (1990)
Parable of the Sower.Octavia E. Butler (1993)
Eon.Greg Bear (1985)
#note.//
We begin, obviously in the year 2312. This is Kim looking to the near-future from 2010s or about 300 years into the future.
Parable of the Sower
#author.Octavia E. Butler
#copyright.1993
#setting.near-future-date.
#sync.//books read in parallel in bundle. All the books look to the near future.
Expanded Universe.Robert A. Heinlein (1939-1980)
Earth.David Brin (1990)
Eon.Greg Bear (1985)
2312.Kim Stanley Robinson (2012)
#note.//
We begin in the year 2024, Saturday July 20.
This is the author looking to the near-future from early 1990s or about 40 years (1993 to 2024).
Sunday, July 21
A young girl is an empath (in world of pain). She is going to her baptism (to cleanse original sin?).
The future economies have collapsed. She thinks about God. This is what she finds.
#copyright.1993
#setting.near-future-date.
#sync.//books read in parallel in bundle. All the books look to the near future.
Expanded Universe.Robert A. Heinlein (1939-1980)
Earth.David Brin (1990)
Eon.Greg Bear (1985)
2312.Kim Stanley Robinson (2012)
#note.//
We begin in the year 2024, Saturday July 20.
This is the author looking to the near-future from early 1990s or about 40 years (1993 to 2024).
Sunday, July 21
A young girl is an empath (in world of pain). She is going to her baptism (to cleanse original sin?).
The future economies have collapsed. She thinks about God. This is what she finds.
"A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-kin-God. They believe in a kind of super-person. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of."
Earth.1990
#author.David Brin
#sync.//books read in parallel in bundle. All the books look to the near future.
Expanded Universe.Robert A. Heinlein (1939-1980)
#note.// We begin in the year 2040. This is David looking to the near-future.
#otherBooks.//David also wrote some other favorites:
<link>.Startide Rising.dolphins and humans in space. One of my favorites
<link>.Sundiver.more dolphins and chimps and gorilla
<link>.The Uplift War
Expanded Universe.1980
#author.Robert A. Heinlein
#sync.//books read in parallel in bundle. All the books look to the near future.
Eon.Greg Bear
Earth.David Brin
Parable of the Sower.Octavia E. Butler
2312.Kim Stanley Robinson
#note.//A compendium of short stories from 1940 to 1980.
Life-Line.1939 first copyright.FINISHED.201409
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