Books, Nostalgia

Top Ways Fahrenheit Influenced My Life

Autumn
Friday
9:02 pm

In light of the graphic novel coming out next week, and the comment Colin wrote at my last post here, I give you my top ways that book haunts me to this day.

Guy Montag commutes via tube then walks home, thinking “idiot thoughts” as he puts it on the long stretch of empty sidewalk to his home.  Whenever I’m on a nice bit of ill-used sidewalk I look around expecting the mechanical hound is just around the corner.  I used to walk to work at midnight in Burbank (I had a graveyard shift)  which made it all the more real.  I once happened upon a dandelion and almost picked ..read more

Books, Movies, Television, The Geek6

The Geek6: Favorite SciFi Characters

Jason
Friday
11:13 am

GeekSix is evolving. No more do you have to listen to just my weekly top five. Now you get to listen to the collective Geek6. That is right, each of the staff will throw down the gauntlet with what is at the top of their list. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

This week on The Geek6 is the staff’s favorite science fiction character. It was a pretty daunting task considering the breadth of possibilities and the selections showed that as picked ranged from literature to movies to television.

Here you go, listed in no particular order (well I did draw them out of an actual hat)…

Christy Ender Wiggin – Ender’s Game I ..read more