Just a heads up:

Amazon has Battlestar Galactica promotion today and you can buy the complete series for 63-70% off on DVD and bluray. Only today.

Also Stargate SG-1: The Complete Series Collection on DVD is available for largely reduced price. This may last a little longer.

They also have ebook of Neal Stephenson's Reamde for just 2.99. I was ( Read more... )

Nebula Awards winners have been announced yesterday:

Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)
Novelette: “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made”, Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)
Short Story (tie): “Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10 ( Read more... )

I’ve watched Torchwood: Children of Earth lately and I liked it. I think this was the first time I really felt this was a show for grown ups. Till now it’s supposed adultness mostly consisted of nakedness and sex scenes and a little gore, or in other words something adolescents think is very grown up. This time it was more cruelty and though ( Read more... )

I've seen both the ending of Torchwood and the beginning of Doctor Who.

( Torchwood was depressing. )

Today somehow became very important day for television:

Torchwood season 2 ends. Was fun. Wonder if any of the rumors will turn out to be true.

Battlestar Galactica season 4 begins after over a year long break. I almost forgot to care. (I'm not counting Razor - I didn't care about it).

And Glina season 2 - a polish cop show comes back after 4 years. ( Read more... )

The last few episodes of Torchwood seem all have common theme - dying aliens.

First in Meat they couldn’t manage to save that poor tortured whale-like creature.
Then they killed Adam.
Then in Reset alien torturing came to new levels with whole farm of test subjects.

Really it’s better to stay of Earth. Make me think maybe we deserve the Beth's ( Read more... )

What makes us who we are, the persons we claim to be. Aren’t our personalities just the electricity coursing our brains? State of mind.
I was always fascinated by stories about losing memory and becoming someone else. And the more sci-fi equivalent - stories of fake personalities.
Isn’t losing memory just like death? The person who was there is ( Read more... )