Yearly Archives: 2017

Book Review: Death’s End by Liu Cixin

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

Death’s End is the final installment of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin (family name Liu), the most popular science fiction series in China. I’ve reviewed the first two books before: The Three-Body Problem and The Dark … Continue reading →

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What If? Rejects #7.3: Nuke It From Orbit!

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

It’s the only way to be sure. Previous post in this series: Kisses Next post in this series: I Am Not a Doctor Note: I wrote this post well before the current crisis in North Korea, but this is where … Continue reading →

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Television Review: The Orville

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

Seth MacFarlane, best known for Family Guy and Ted, but also the executive producer of the recent Cosmos series has a new live-action science fiction show this year that is described as a “love letter” to Star Trek. This is … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk Wants to Send People to Mars…in 2025!

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

On Friday, at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, Elon Musk of PayPal and Tesla Motors fame announced his plans for the future of his rocket company, SpaceX. And it’s pretty epic. SpaceX has come a long way—from having … Continue reading →

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Television Review: Star Trek: Discovery

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

Sunday night marked the first return of Star Trek to television in 12 years with the release of the pilot of Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek has always been my favorite science fiction franchise. (Yes, better than Star Wars. I … Continue reading →

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The End of the Cassini Mission

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

Yesterday morning, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at Saturn was deorbited into the planet’s atmosphere in the Grand Finale of an epic 20-year mission. Cassini observed Venus, Earth, and Jupiter while it was in transit and has spent the past 13 years … Continue reading →

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What If? Rejects #7.2: Kisses

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

Previous post in this series: Thor’s Hammer Next post in this series: Nuke it from Orbit! Q: If you saved a whole life’s worth of kissing and used all of that suction on one single kiss, how much suction force … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Dunkirk

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

France, 1940. A British army of 300,000 men is stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. With the Luftwaffe bearing down on them and not enough naval forces to evacuate, England is desperate to bring just a tenth of them home … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: War for the Planet of the Apes

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

The third installment in the latest Planet of the Apes series has come out, and the world has only gotten darker. By the time of War for the Planet of the Apes, Caesar, the genetically modified chimpanzee ruler of the … Continue reading →

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There’s a Solar Eclipse Tomorrow!

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

In case you’ve been living under a rock, there is a total eclipse of the Sun tomorrow, and it’s going to cross the entire continental United States! A solar eclipse is a once in a lifetime event. Any given location … Continue reading →

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