Manga Review: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. #3 story by Sekka Iwata, art by Yu Aoki On an alternate Earth where magic was discovered/rediscovered fifteen years ago, magical monsters called Kaii menace the public. Combating these monsters are magical girls, young women with magitech brooms to fly on and wands that cast spells to bind and… Continue reading Manga Review: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. #3
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Anime Review: Sasaki and Peeps
Anime Review: Sasaki and Peeps We first meet Sasaki at his day job, a salaryman at a small trading company in Tokyo. He’s good at his job, and well liked by his coworkers. But it’s clear that his career stalled out years ago, and his salary can be generously described as modest. By frugal living,… Continue reading Anime Review: Sasaki and Peeps
Movie Review: Desk Set
Movie Review: Desk Set (1957) directed by Walter Lang (aka “His Other Woman”) Back in 1957, if you needed the answer to a question, you couldn’t just go on the internet. You had to look in a book, or ask another human being to look for you. That’s the job of the four women in the… Continue reading Movie Review: Desk Set
Webtoon Review: Inside Job
Webtoon Review: Inside Job The world is not as it appears on the surface. Strange beings exist just out of sight. The reptoids are in favor of global warming. Chemtrails really do have psychoactive properties. And a secret conspiracy controls the world. Kind of. Turns out the world is hard to control properly, and the… Continue reading Webtoon Review: Inside Job
Book Review: Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Book Review: Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer As the subtitle of this volume indicates, it’s a collection of 29 short stories written from a feminist perspective. There are selections from the 1960s through the 2000s–SF, fantasy, horror and a couple of stories that seem to… Continue reading Book Review: Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Book Review: The Marsco Dissident
Book Review: The Marsco Dissident by James A. Zarzana It’s a Marsco world. Much has changed by the last years of the 21st Century. The rot started to set in with the Abandonment Policy (euphemized as “Divestiture”) where countries with prosperous sections and not-so-prosperous bits split off the not-prosperous sectors as “another country now, not… Continue reading Book Review: The Marsco Dissident
Book Review: One of Our Asteroids is Missing | The Twisted Men
Book Review: One of Our Asteroids is Missing | The Twisted Men by Robert Silverberg (writing as Calvin M. Knox) and A. E. Van Vogt, respectively. This is another Ace Double, two books in one, upside down from each other. According to Larry Niven, during the 1960s Ace Books was known for being particularly skinflint… Continue reading Book Review: One of Our Asteroids is Missing | The Twisted Men
Comic Strip Review: Still Pumped from Using the Mouse
Comic Strip Review: Still Pumped from Using the Mouse by Scott Adams Dilbert is an engineer who works for a poorly-managed mid-size corporation. His co-workers are hostile, his boss is pointy-haired, and Dilbert himself is less than competent with anything other than engineering. Such as dating. The Dilbert gag-a-day comic strip has been running since 1989;… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Still Pumped from Using the Mouse
Book Review: Cybersecurity Leadership
Book Review: Cybersecurity Leadership by Mansur Hasib Disclaimer: I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. Update: A revised and updated version with black and white printing is now available on Amazon for $18.05. Mansur Hasib has been a Chief Information Officer in the healthcare and biotechnology… Continue reading Book Review: Cybersecurity Leadership