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Book and Movie Reviews of 2013-15

Technofiction Writing Tips

These are presentations I've given on how to write Technofiction

• Adding Science to Storytelling -- presentation at WIT Hour of Code at Adobe Systems (May 14)
• Notes from 2014 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 14)
• Short Stories and Short Films -- short stories are easy to adapt, and short films are wonderful for show-casing new stuff (Mar 13)
• Notes from 2013 LTUE panels -- panel discussions at Life, The Universe, and Everything writers symposium (Feb 13)

Technofiction Reviews

These are reviews of movies and books from the technofiction perspective.

• Review of The Hobbit: Battle of the five Armies -- great battle scenes, but not much story (Dec 14)
• Review of Interstellar -- right up with Prometheus in head-scratching and internal incosistency (Nov 14)
• Review of Atlas Shrugged 3 -- <sigh> shrug it off (Sep 14)
• Review of Edge of Tomorrow -- ouch! so unbelieveable in such a bad way (Jun 14)
• Review of Transcendence -- ouch! sci fi romance filled with nonsense (Apr 14)
• Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel -- good candidate for favorite of 2014 (Apr 14)
• Review of The Wind Rises -- Bravo! A movie with an original story! (Mar 14)
• Review of Robocop -- a mixed bag... interesting commentary plus ho-hum shoot-um-up (Feb 14)
• Review of Her -- nice Technofiction! (Jan 14)
• Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -- great sets, good smash and crash, better than the first one (Dec 13)
• Review of About Time and Hunger Games -- interesting movies, nice alternatives to the "smash and crash" (Nov 13)
• Review of Ender's Game -- good SF production values, but the military and social issues are story book issues (Nov 13)
• Review of Gravity -- neat and innovative. I'm glad it got made. But it has Technofiction problems (Oct 13)
• Review of Blue Jasmine and Closed Circuit -- two good movies with no smash and crash (Sep 13)
• Review of Elysium -- Yes, Elysium is District Nine on steroids (Aug 13)
• Review of Pacific Rim -- Monsters and Mechwarriors, Oh My! (July 13)
• Review of The Chaplain's Legacy -- a classic Analog story (Jun 13)
• Review of Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness -- Bobsy Twins of early summer action films (May 13)
• Review of Oblivion -- Loved the production values! The story... a different story (Apr 13)
• Review of Zero Dark Thirty -- well told in many ways, but it missed the big picture (Jan 13)