Stories by Williams

Favorite Cult Classics (Part The First)

by storiesbywilliams on October 6, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged AI's, Akira, anime, army of darkness, arnie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ash, Blade Runner, boomstick, bruce campbell, captain malcolm reynolds, cimmerian, commando, conan, conan the barbarian, conan the cimmerian, cult classics, cyberpunk, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, evil dead, firefly, Harrison Ford, hyboria, indiana jones, james earl jones, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, miranda, neo-tokyo, netflix, nuclear war, Philip k dick, post-apocalyptic, Predator, reavers, replicants, Ridley Scott, river tam, robert e howard, sam raimi, serenity, spiderman, Star Wars, the alliance, the operative, Thulsa Doom, wwIII, xena warrior princess

It might be that I’m feeling nostalgic, or it might be that since my wife and I sprung for Netflix, I’ve been finding my way back to several of my favorite old movies. Hard to say exactly. All I know for sure is, I want to talk about the cult classic movies that I like […]

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Dystopia – Final Word

by storiesbywilliams on March 31, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 1984, 2019, A Clockwork Orange, A Little Princess, A Scanner Darkly, Akira, Anthem, anthony burgess, art deco, ayn rand, beethoven, Biopunk, Brave New World, children of men, clive owen, console, custodian, cybernetics, cyberpunk, cyberspace, cyberspace deck, cyberspace jockeys, deck, deep sleep operatives, Dieselpunk, dystopian, dystopian literature, Elfpunk, fritz lang, future noire, ghost in the shell, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, human project, jessica 6, Katsuhiro Otomo, lastday, lifeboat britain, logan 3, logans run, margaret atwood, mega city one, metropolis, molly millions, Motoko Kusanagi, nanomachines, Nanopunk, nanotechnology, National Public Safety Commission, Neal Stephenson, neo-tokyo, Neuromancer, new wave, new-path, omegas, p.d. james, palm flower, pavlovian conditioning, pavlovs dog, Philip k dick, PKD, postcyberpunk, runners, sanctuary, sandman, sandmen, Sci-Fi, science fiction, Section 9, sleepshop, slow death, stanley kubrick, Star Trek TNG, steampunk, substance d, tessier-ashpool, The Diamond Age, the droogs, the handsmaid tale, tower of babel, V for Vendetta, virek, We, William Gibson, Y Tu Mama Tambien, yakuza, yevgeny zamyatin

Well, after many, many suggestions on how my list of dystopian franchises could be augmented – this mainly consisted of poeple asking me “what about (blank)?” – I decided there were a few that I really couldn’t proceed without mentioning. This will be my last tour of the dystopia factory, lord knows that place gets […]

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AKIRA!

by storiesbywilliams on August 2, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 2019, Akira, anime, apocalypse, biker, biker gangs, bikers, bosozoku, cult, cult classic, cyberpunk, dystopian, earthquakes, espers, evolution, hiroshima, japan, japanese, kaneda, Katsuhiro Otomo, kei, laser, laser gun, Mami Koyama, manga, Mitsuo Iwata, neo-tokyo, Nozomu Sasaki, nuclear holocaust, post-apocalyptic, psionic, psychic, realism, satellite, Sci-Fi, science fiction, Taro Ishida, telekinetic, telepathic, tetsuo

I’ll admit it, I don’t watch a lot of Anime. I know, that probably makes me a bad geek. But what can I say? You gotta be into that kind of thing and apparently, I’m not. But over the years, I’ve managed to find a few titles that I did like. Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter […]

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