The new Battlestar Galactica series Caprica (SyFy) begins fifty eight years before the fall of Caprica to the Cylons. We finally get to see what life was like before humanity ended up living in run-down spaceships jumping from place to place in an attempt to outrun the Cylons. You don’t need to have seen BSG [...]
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01/23/2010
Caprica Pilot Review (Spoilers)
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Tags: Battlestar Galactica, BSG, Caprica, cylons, Esai Morales, Puerto Rico, robots, SyFy, technology, virtual reality
12/29/2009
Cosmos Latinos: Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (Book Review, Part Two)
The previous post covered the introduction of the Cosmos Latinos anthology edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. This post will briefly describe the 27 short stories in the book without spoilers except for the first two essay-type stories. The 27 were selected to represent different authors and different “eras” of Latin American science [...]
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