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Game of Thrones – Season 3, Episode 7

by storiesbywilliams on May 15, 2013 in Books, Fantasy, Series and tagged arya stark, brann stark, brienne of tarth, brotherhood without banners, catelyn stark, daenerys targaryen, game of thrones, gendry, goldcloaks, harrenhal, hodor, jaime lannister, joffrey bartheon, jojen reed, king robert baratheon, kings landing, locke, lord petyr baelish, maergery tyrell, osha, riverrun, robb stark, sansa stark, ser edmure tully, ser sandor clegane, talisa maegyr, the black brothers, the maiden and the bear, the nights watch, the others, The Twins, the wall, tyrion lannister, tywin lannister, vargo hoat, varys, walder frey, yunkai, yunkishmen

Welcome back to more of the third season of Game of Thrones! As we have now passed the seventh episode in this season, we are fast coming up on the finale of season three and another long wait as they prep for season four. Yes, the show has been renewed for another season, but is […]

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Game of Thrones – Season 3, Episode 5

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2013 in Books, Fantasy, Reviews, Series and tagged arya stark, astapor, berid dondarion, brienne of tarth, cersei lannister, daenerys stormborn, daenerys targaryen, episode five kissed by fire, essos, game of thrones, game of thrones season three, grey worm, greyscale, harrehal, jaime lannister, john snow, kings landing, lord littlefinger, ned stark, pyter baelish, riverlands, riverrun, roose bolton, sansa stark, ser barristan selmy, ser davos seaworth, ser jorah mormont, ser loras tyrell, slavers bay, stannis baratheon, the kingslayer, the realm, the wall, the wildlings, tormund giantsbane, tyrion lannister, tywin lannister, unsullied, ygritte, yunkai

Morning folks, welcome to another work week, and another episode review of GOT! This week, since I’ve got a bit more free time on my hands, I thought I’d get to this review early and avoid what happened last time. I mean, people don’t need to wait til Thursday to hear about a show they […]

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Game of Thrones Season 3 Trailer: “We Do Not Choose Our Destiny”

by storiesbywilliams on March 25, 2013 in Books, Fantasy, Series, Video and tagged bran stark, brienne of tarth, daenerys targaryen, dragons, DVR, game of thrones season 3, game of thrones season 3 trailer, jaime lannister, kings landing, slavers bay, stannis baratheon, the riverlands, the wall, TiVo, unsullied, war of five kings, we do not choose our destiny, wildlings

It seems we’re in for a bit of a two-fer today. Its become a habit of mine to post trailers for upcoming movies on Mondays now. However, it just so happens that while I was doing my due diligence for one, I came across a second must-see teaser which I had to pass on. This […]

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Remembering Douglas Adams

by storiesbywilliams on March 12, 2013 in Authors, Books, Movies, News, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a trilogy in five parts, And Another Thing..., babel fish, bbc hitchhikers guide to the galaxy game, bbc radio, chaos theory, dirk gently's holistic detective agency, don't panic, douglas adam's 61st birthday, douglas adams, google doodle, Graham Chapman, heart of gold, infinite probability drive, Life the Universe and Everything, mark carwardine, monty python, monty python's flying circus, Mostly Harmless, quantum theory, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish., the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the long dark tea-time of the soul, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Yesterday was the birthday of the late, great science fiction writer and luminary known as Douglas Adams. Had he not passed away in 2001, at the age of forty-one, he would have been celebrating his sixty-first birthday. Best remembered for his series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Adams greatest accomplishment was arguably his ability […]

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Of Invincible Aliens that were Easily Vanquished

by storiesbywilliams on February 26, 2013 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged achilles heel, alien invasion, Battle: Los Angeles, Battlefield Earth, battleship, borg queen, captain picard, h.g. wells, Independence Day, John Travolta, Kang and Kodos, L. Ron Hubbard, locutus, M. Night Shyamalan, martian tripods, martians, Paul Verhoeven, Q, rihanna, science fiction, scientology, signs, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, the borg, The Day of the Triffids, the simpsons, The War of the Worlds, Transformers, uss enterprise, USS Missouri, uss voyager

If there’s one thing that’s become an annoying cliche in commercial science fiction movies, and even some novels, it’s the idea of a super-advanced alien race that come to Earth, proceeds to kick ass, but then gets beaten by a ragtag bunch of superheroes by the most implausible means. You know what I’m talking about, […]

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A Dance With Dragons: A Review

by storiesbywilliams on February 20, 2013 in Books, Fantasy, Reviews and tagged a dance with dragons, a song of ice and fire, aegon targaryen, arya stark, azor ahai, braavos, brandon stark, brienne of tarth, daario naharis, daenerys targaryen, deepwood motte, dorne, dornishmen, dothraki, drogon, essos, game of thrones, Gilly, grand maester pycelle, greenseers, Hizdahr zo Loraq, house frey, isle of skagos, jeyne poole, john connington, jon snow, karstarks, Khal Jhaqo, lord davos seaworth, lord manderly, Maester Aemon, meereen, melisandre, moat cailin, oldtown, osha, quentyn martell, qyburn, ramsay bolton, red god r'hllor, reek, rickard stark, roose bolton, samwell tarly, sansa stark, ser barristan selmy, ser jorah mormont, ser kevan lannister, skin changing, slavers bay, stannis baratheon, strong belwas, the black brothers, the dreadfort, the free cities, the narrow sea, the others, the wall, the watch, theon greyjoy, tyrion lannister, tywin lannister, volantis, westeros, wildlings, winterfell, wun wun the giant, yunkai'i

Done at last! It seems like its taken me forever to finish this novel. And yet, now that it’s done, I find myself missing it already. After weeks on end of being immersed in Martin’s epic fantasy universe, it’s hard going without! What’s more, given how long – loooooong! – it took him to produce […]

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Ender’s Game: Movie News!

by storiesbywilliams on February 20, 2013 in Books, Movies, News and tagged Aramis Knight, Asa Butterfield, Asp army, battle school, Bean, Ben Kingsley, Colonel Hyrum Graff, Crossing Over, Doubt, Dragon army, ender wiggin, enders game, enders game movie, Gavin Hood, Ghandi, Hailee Steinfeld, han solo, Harrison Ford, Hugo, Major Gwen Anderson, Mazar Rackham, orson scott card, Petra Arkanian, Rat army, Rendition, Salamander army, Schindler's List, Solaris, The Help, true grit, Tsotsi, Viola Davis, x-men origins: wolverine

We are now less than a year away from the release of the long-awaited Ender’s Game movie! And as expected, the producers are beginning to release teasers to stoke the collective appetite of fans. These included the official logos for the four armies at the Battle School. Take a gander at Asp army, Salamander army, […]

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The Kessel Run: The Fandom Obsession

by storiesbywilliams on February 15, 2013 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series, Space, Video and tagged black hole, carrie fisher, chewy, disney star wars, Dune, george lucas, glimmerstim spice, han solo, jedi, jedi academy trilogy, kessel, kessel run, Kevin J Anderson, light year, luke skywalker, millennium falcon, movie mistakes, parsec, princess leia, sith, space, speed of light (c), spice, Star Wars, star wars episode IV a new hope, Star Wars prequels, Star Wars trilogy, stormtrooper, the empire, the maw, the phantom menace, the pit, the rebel alliance, time travel, wired magazine

If you were to get into a discussion with a true Star Wars fan, it would only be a matter of time before the subject of the Kessel run came up. Long considered one of the biggest enigmas to come out of the franchise, Han’s boast in A New Hope about his ship’s capabilities – […]

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New Trailer: The Host

by storiesbywilliams on February 9, 2013 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Video and tagged invasion of the body snatchers, movie trailer, science fiction, stephenie meyer, the host, the twilight series, twilight

Behold the trailer for The Host, a science fiction flick based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer – author of the Twilight series. I’ll try not to hold that against this movie! Borrowing from the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this story takes place long after the invasion has taken […]

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The World of “A Song of Ice and Fire”

by storiesbywilliams on December 6, 2012 in Authors, Books, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a song of ice and fire, ancient greece, ancient rome, antiquity, arrakeen, arrakis, astapor, baron harkonnen, caladan, casterly rock, conspiracy theories, dothraki, Dune, emperor shaddam IV, essos, fedeykin, Frank Herbert, geidi prime, George RR Martin, gondor, hadrians wall, hobbits, ilyrio, J RR Tolkien, kings landing, lannisters, Lord of the Rings, mereen, middle earth, minas tirith, Paul Atreides, qarth, sardukar, seitch tabr, selusa secundus, slavers bay, sothoryos, the atreides, the fremen, the harkonnens, the king in the north, the reach, the shield wall, the shire, vaes dothrak, westeros, yunkai

After reading four of the five of the books in the ongoing Song of Ice and Fire series, I’ve come to realize something. I really like the world George RR Martin has created! In fact, you might say I haven’t found myself becoming so engrossed with a fictional universe since Dune or Lord of the […]

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