Disney/Lucasfilm has unveiled the creation of a new Star Wars universe. Oh, it’s still in a galaxy far, far away, but a new series of books called The High Republic is set even longer ago, specifically 200 years before the events we know from the movies. We’ll see the first of these publications in August. […]
Netflix has released the first official full-length trailer for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events The first eight-episode season is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on Friday the 13th in January 2017. After the three young Baudelaire siblings are left orphaned by a fire in their mansion, they are carted off to live with […]
So you think you know The Hunger Games series? Well I bet you don’t know these seven facts about the dystopian novel/movie series. Cinefix
Game of Thrones has been a fantastic experience for any who have read the books or seen the show. It is a world ripe with espionage, betrayal, death, and sex around every corner. But sometimes when someone creates a series (book or show) that large, there are threads that are left dangling. Mysteries that do […]
By Patrick-Michel Dagenais, Contributing Writer. Growing up as a geek, one of the aspects of geek culture that is pretty commonly accepted is that nerds love when beautiful people dress up as characters they adore from fiction. And while cosplay may be a pretty widely accepted and mainstream movement right now, there are still some […]
Although a great many of us geeks truly love science fiction and the science fiction genre, we sometimes need to remember it is not easily accessible by all. Some can find all the future and tech talk quite jarring and confusing. So are there still science fiction books out there that can appeal to a […]
People don’t often think about it while gaming, but there are some really great games that were based on books. Literature was the premier escapist method before video games, so it makes sense games themselves would borrow from some books that inspired them. Here are five of the best. Oh, and hell yes to Alice […]
For many geeks, books were the first gateways we had to true adventure and limitless freedom. They allowed us to be the space pirates or the sword wielding warriors we always dreamt of. More than just books, they were doorways into worlds we would have never experienced were they not created by the bevvy of […]
Did you know that Green Eggs and Ham was written as the result of a bet that a man named Theodore Geisel (who would come to be known as Dr.Seuss) couldn’t write a complete book using only 50 words? Not only did he prove his naysayer wrong, but he went on to pen one of […]
What is amazing about nonfiction books is their ability to spark debate and spark conversation among people. They are not fables with heavy mythology, and are often the catalyst of great discussions that may not have otherwise happened had the book not breached the subject first. Flavorwire’s Elisabeth Donnelly has combed over some very powerful […]