It’s the final frontier of geek craft! From adorable Wookies and intrepid astro droids to avenging Mak’tar science officers and hunky Asgardian demi-gods, the Unexpected Hobby Etsy store has all your extra-terrestrial stitching needs.
Claims of the “best movie of the year” aside, a few films have seriously impacted me this year and compelled me to seek out more of the story.
1. Arrival – Based on a short story by Ted Chiang and published in “Stories of Your Life and Others”. I’m well into this book and am seriously impressed with Chiang’s imaginative and compelling approach to Science Fiction.
2. Hidden Figures – The movie was very compelling, but ultimately hints at a much larger story surrounding each of these women and their peers in the early days of our space program. Cue Margot Lee Shetterly’s “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race”. (There’s also a Young Reader’s version of this book that’s begging to be on your kid’s bookshelf.)
The Windup Girl is a biopunk scifi novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. I’m listening to the audiobook narrated by Jonathan Davis (who is very good!).
I was a big fan of Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife, which also takes place in a future drastically altered by climate change.
My review of Smart Pop Books new title, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club”, for Fanbase Press.
