Harlan Ellison hasn’t sued Daniel H. Wilson-at least not yet, but it’s hard not to think of The Terminator while reading Robopocalypse. More precisely, it bears a striking resemblance to S. M. Stirling’s trilogy sequel to Arnold’s T2. I really loved the T2 books and I’m pretty impressed with Robopocalypse, though I do pretty much hate the name. As in The Matrix, mankind is happy in the not too distance future when a mad scientist invents AI in a secret lab. This supercomputer calls itself Archos and it is pissed because the Mad Scientist keeps killing it and bringing it…
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Despicable Me
The local second run movie theater charges $1.25 so you can see a movie already avaible on DVD, but most of the time, these are not movies you want to own anyway. So recently, the Dollar Theater has upgraded one of it’s screens to 3D and is charging another $2 for 3D films. This is not too bad a deal, though the theater itself is still way on the run down side and it isn’t stadium seating. But hey, what do you want for $1.25? Anyway. Despicable Me is the story of a Super Villian named Gru trying to keep…
Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
I first read Man Without a Country not long after it came out in 2005 and I still totally agree with everything Kurt has to say. Kurt was a humanist who had the radical idea that war was bad, over population was bad, The Bushes-Chaneys-Rumsfelds of the world were bad, and that the idea that The Free Market will self correct and fix everything is total bullshit. My kind of a guy. Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven now, along with Issac Asimov. Just kidding. They were both famous atheists who prefered the rational to the fantastical, except for their writing.…