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Project Hail MaryFist my bump! Project Hail Mary is destined to be a modern science fiction classic. It represents the genre at its most hopeful. Humanity faces a clear, oncoming cataclysm and, rather than squabbling …Cory Dransfeldt·May 12·2 min readFollowscifiadventuredrama
Crimes of the FutureThe Cronenberg family has made some of the most grotesque movies I've ever watched. To their credit, they're never needlessly grotesque. Crimes of the Future exists solidly within body horror, which i…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 21·1 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
Gene Pool Diver: Genemods For MothershipStella, Sandwich Enjoyer·Mar 28·3 min readFollowmothershipscifi
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War MachineAlan Ritchson is great in these roles — particularly Reacher . There's nothing new, nothing novel, nothing terribly admirable about War Machine . 81 (Ritchson) loses his brother, he becomes an army ra…Cory Dransfeldt·Mar 18·1 min readFollowscifithrilleraction
The Dreaming VoidPeter F. Hamilton has quickly become one of my favorite authors, having found his work via Exodus (which I realize is not the recommended starting point). There are concepts that cut across Exodus , P…Cory Dransfeldt·Mar 17·2 min readFollowscififantasyadventuredrama
Greenland 2: MigrationTo survive the apocalypse in Europe, all you need to do is ask for help. How do you know you're in Europe? Post-apocalyptic European infrastructure is better than pre-apocalyptic American infrastructu…Cory Dransfeldt·Jan 27·1 min readFollowscifithrilleractionadventure
Books of 2026A list of books I'm reading this year.Jesse Sutherland·Jan 26·2 min readFollowbookslogscififiction
There Is No Antimemetics Division audiobookI just finished up listening to the audiobook version of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Can safely say that I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend. That said, I loved This Is How Y…dave kellam·Jan 13·2 min readFollowbooksscifiposts
Don't Worry DarlingDon't Worry Darling is what happens when guys sit home alone, all day, in chat rooms listening to crap on YouTube. Guys that are also too stupid to know that you can't take the same phone you use in t…Cory Dransfeldt·Jan 13·1 min readFollowscifimysterythriller
TRON: AresTRON: Ares is a move that's easy to feel conflicted about first and foremost because of Jared Leto's inclusion in a leading role. The guy is at best extremely odd and clearly, well, not at his best. B…Cory Dransfeldt·Dec 4·1 min readFollowscifiactionadventure
Predator: BadlandsI so very much wanted to love Predator: Badlands , but it ended up being resoundingly mediocre. Picture a Predator movie made by Disney and that's what you have here. There are some Mandalorian vibes …Cory Dransfeldt·Dec 1·1 min readFollowscifiactionadventure
Judas UnchainedJudas Unchained and Pandora's Star are one book with an acceptable split between the two. The former picks up directly where the latter stops, following the same set of well established characters and…Cory Dransfeldt·Nov 19·2 min readFollowscififantasyfiction
The Fantastic 4: First StepsThere's a sad irony to Marvel movies being made by a company as cowardly as Disney. I mean, much of the recent Marvel output has been barely better than awful, but still. Offer your audience heroes wh…Cory Dransfeldt·Sep 25·3 min readFollowscifiactionadventure
Pandora's StarI'd say Peter F. Hamilton has done it again given how much I liked Exodus but that doesn't make sense inasmuch this preceded said book. So I suppose he did do it again with Exodus but I started at the…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 23·2 min readFollowscififantasyfiction
SupermanKindness is punk. Superman is an immigrant and Homelander is the villain. Right? But hey, go ahead and argue about manufactured outrages because you're fragile and easily enraged. James Gunn clearly h…Cory Dransfeldt·Aug 16·1 min readFollowscifiactionadventure
M3GAN 2.0M3GAN Impossible: Silicon Valley. Wherein Silicon Valley is every bit as unbearable as it's portrayed in the eponymous show . The billionaire that installed chips in his brain is a lech that entirely …Cory Dransfeldt·Jul 21·1 min readFollowscifihorror
CompanionOh this was fantastic . It doesn't shy away from forecasting what may well be a future born out of the failed imaginings of modern tech leaders. Lonely men, a misunderstanding of human nature, a lack …Cory Dransfeldt·Jun 11·2 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
Venom: The Last DanceA little bit of family-friendly Deadpool , some Power Rangers vibes, a dance scene with Mrs. Chen who happens to be in Vegas at exactly the wrong time and a Maroon 5 tune. Venom: The Ted Lasso Crossov…Cory Dransfeldt·Jun 9·1 min readFollowscifiactionadventure
ExodusThis is my first time reading anything Peter F. Hamilton's written and it will not be my last. I spent years barely reading (books at least) or not reading at all and I can't shake the feeling that I'…Cory Dransfeldt·Jun 5·2 min readFollowscififantasyfiction
VenomThis manages to be more enjoyable than a lot of recent Marvel movies simply by not taking itself so seriously. Venom is juvenile — sometimes to a fault, but it's not unbearably serious to the point th…Cory Dransfeldt·Jun 4·1 min readFollowscifiactionadventure
Red PlanetFuck this planet. Right? There's a vocal set that insists on going to a dust ball that's not designed to kill us, but everything about it makes it perfect to kill us. Why? Hubris, probably hubris. The…Cory Dransfeldt·May 26·1 min readFollowscifithrilleraction
28 Weeks LaterA more than capable sequel that trades in the lo-fi quality of the original, brings in a star-laden cast and leans a bit more towards gung-ho action movie. Britain has been emptied out of the infected…Cory Dransfeldt·May 2·2 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
AshMore visually appealing than narratively coherent Ash is a fairly compelling and ambitious debut for Flying Lotus (whose work I’m entirely unfamiliar with so everything here is absent that context). E…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 27·1 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
28 Days LaterA classic of early aughts horror. Oddly optimistic, violent, bloody and visceral — plus it looks like it was shot on my second iPhone, or an iPhone 4? I immediately knew this was British not because o…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 27·2 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
Alien ClayTchaikovsky is one of the best science fiction authors around and Alien Clay exemplifies his talent for immersive world-building, gripping narratives and structure. This particular tale centers on dis…Cory Dransfeldt·Apr 8·2 min readFollowscifi
HumaneAnother Cronenberg making horror movies? Sign me the hell up. Not as outright grotesque as the work of her brother or her father but the concept is dark, doesn't entirely avoid some gore and entertain…Cory Dransfeldt·Mar 29·1 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
Children of MemoryChildren of Memory takes a sharp narrative turn from the two novels that preceded it and it's not better for it. It's different. There are still spiders, Nodan interlocutors, post-scarcity voyages, bu…Cory Dransfeldt·Mar 17·1 min readFollowscififiction
Children of Ruin🐙🌊🚀🕷️🧑🚀 The octopus book! I enjoyed the hell out of this — more than Children of Time even. It benefits from the historical context so thoroughly laid out in its predecessor and expands beautif…Cory Dransfeldt·Feb 20·1 min readFollowscififiction
TimecrimesA smart, brief, low-budget time travel tale. You step right into the loop in what you're told is the start of it, but could have been at any point in Hector's time travel cycle. It "concludes" with He…Cory Dransfeldt·Feb 17·1 min readFollowscifithriller
Children of TimeA beautiful, absorbing sci-fi tale: mankind at its worst, aimlessly seeking a new home and declaring their manifest right to the first habitable planet that they encounter. Never mind that said planet…Cory Dransfeldt·Jan 27·1 min readFollowscififiction
2073I wanted a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, I got a pre-apocalyptic documentary shouting at the viewer to turn back from a briefly previewed future dystopia that we're sprinting towards. It doesn't work…Cory Dransfeldt·Jan 7·2 min readFollowscifidramadocumentary
LivesuitI'll continue to heap praise on Abraham and Franck. This novella sets aside the events of The Mercy of Gods and drops you into the life of a soldier named Kirin who volunteers to be deployed as a Live…Cory Dransfeldt·Dec 15·2 min readFollowscifi
The Mercy of GodsWhat is, is. I haven't read a scifi book this quickly since I wrapped up The Expanse . Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (as James S.A. Corey) have a real knack for developing expansive universes and drawi…Cory Dransfeldt·Dec 14·2 min readFollowscififiction
Consider PhlebasThis is the first book I’ve read by Iain Banks and it took me a bit longer to get through than I would’ve liked. This is my fault, not the author’s (finding time to read is hard and my inability to fo…Cory Dransfeldt·Nov 28·1 min readFollowscififiction
Alien: RomulusThe Alien franchise is among my favorite scifi/horror franchises because it lands firmly in the don't invent the horror vortex camp. It's realistic, not optimistic and its vision of space is all rough…Cory Dransfeldt·Oct 16·2 min readFollowscifithrillerhorroraction
The FlyThere’s something about the physicality of 80s horror movie effects that make them so much more grotesque. David Cronenberg deserves plenty of credit for just how gnarly this is — he’s very good at ma…Cory Dransfeldt·Sep 27·1 min readFollowscifihorror
A Quiet Place: Day OneWow. What a movie. The most compelling part of the movies set in John Krasinski's Quiet Place universe is the way in which they succeed so deftly at humanizing characters and telling stories when thei…Cory Dransfeldt·Jul 31·3 min readFollowscifithrillerhorror
