![]() ![]() Then again, I did come into it halfway through the show, so I know my perceptions are faulty. WORLD LEGACY MIND MELD MOVIEYou see, I’ve only seen part of the Star Trek movie reboot…and I wasn’t much impressed by what I saw. WORLD LEGACY MIND MELD SERIESAnd I don’t mean I’m clinging to The Original Series or TNG or DS9 or even Voyager, refusing to take the reboot movies serious. Jean Johnson is a multi-bestselling author of both military science fiction and fantasy romance, and was thrilled to be a PK Dick nominee in 2011 for her debut military SF novel, A Soldier’s Duty. A GoT marathon will be my treat to myself after I deliver my next book! I really enjoyed the characters and story in S1 (compelling characters and interesting story being high on the list of things that I -am- a fan of), and the S2 DVDs are in my queue. However, I do look forward to watching Season 2 of Game Of Thrones on Netflix (I don’t have HBO). (See above: nearly fell asleep watching Star Trek.) (“Action porn” is director Nicholas Meyer’s phrase for a movie that exists to convey a lot of action scenes, rather than a movie in which action scenes help tell a story.) Since I’m not a fan of either of those things, Hollywood sf/f movies tend to be boring for me. The majority of them focus on two things that don’t interest me at all: special effects and action porn. Otherwise, I don’t plan to see any sf/f feature films in 2013, simply because, in general, I avoid Hollywood sf/f movies like the plague. (The list also includes Shah Rukh Khan, Alan Rickman, Kajol, Meryl Streep, Laura Linney, Aamir Khan, Sean Bean, Colin Firth, Tilda Swinton, etc.) He could make the film watchable, so I’m willing to try. He’s among the actors for whom I’ll try watching a film I’d otherwise skip. An opinion columnist, frequent public speaker, and the Campbell Award-winning author of many short stories, she is on the Web at .Īlthough I was so bored I nearly fell asleep in the previous Star Trek movie, I’ll probably see Star Trek 2, which I’d normally skip, simply because Benedict Cumberbatch is in it. ![]() She has also written traditional fantasy novels such as In Legend Born, The Destroyer Goddess, and The White Dragon, which made multiple “Year’s Best” lists. Laura Resnick is the author of the popular Esther Diamond urban fantasy series, whose releases include Disappearing Nightly, Doppelgangster, Unsympathetic Magic, Vamparazzi, Polterheist, and coming soon, The Misfortune Cookie (November 2013). ![]()
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