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News From Space: MESSENGER and Mercury

by storiesbywilliams on March 29, 2013 in News, Science, Space and tagged BepiColombo mission, caloris basin, curiosity rover, Easter day, Easter weekend, ESA, flyby, IAU, international astronomical union, J RR Tolkien, JAXA, Lord of the Rings, mars, Mercury, mercury north pole craters named, mercury south pole craters named, mercury tolkien crater, mercury volcanoes, mercurys craters, mercurys longest elongation 2013, MESSENGER spacecraft, NASA, orbit, Rachmaninoff basin, satellite, The Hobbit

With Curiosity’s ongoing research and manned missions being planned for Mars by 2030, it seems that the other planets of the Solar System are being sadly neglected these days. Thankfully, the MESSENGER spacecraft, which has been conducting flyby’s of Mercury since 2008 and orbiting it since 2011, is there to remind us of just how […]

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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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The Hunger Games You Didn’t See

by storiesbywilliams on September 6, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Video and tagged 300, blastr, dystopian, entourage, fame, gladiator, harry potter, hollywood, Lord of the Rings, mortal kombat: rebirth, science fiction, serenity, the hunger games, ultra violent, x-men

You know how Hollywood will announce an upcoming movie, and will usually precede any trailers by releasing special info like who’s attached to direct and who will be starring in it? Believe it or not, there’s actually an interesting selection process that leads up to this. Yeah, I was surprised too. Given what I’ve learned […]

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LOTR: The Return of The King

by storiesbywilliams on August 10, 2012 in Books, Movies, Reviews and tagged aragorn, arwen, battle of minas tirith, bilbo baggins, boromir, cirith ungol, corsair fleet, cracks of doom, denethro, dernhelm, easterlings, elves, eowyn, faramir, frodo baggins, gandalf the white, gandalf the wizard, gimli, gondor, great eagles, J RR Tolkien, king's hall, legolas, Lord of the Rings, meriadoc brandybuck, merry and pippin, minas tirith, mordor, mount doom, mouth of sauron, oliphont, orcs, palantir, paths of the dead, peregrin took, pukel men, riders of rohan, ring wraith, rohan, rohirrim, samwise gamgee, saruman, sauron, seeing stone, sharky, southrons, steward of gondor, the black gate, the lord of the rings, the return of the king, the shire, theoden, umbar, war of the last alliance, witch king of angmar

At long last, the third and final installment in the Lord Of The Rings series! It feels like such a long time ago that I read this book, and going over the salient points makes me want to re-read the entire series. By this point in things, I felt myself becoming so immersed in Tolkien’s […]

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First Concept Art for the Neuromancer Movie

by storiesbywilliams on August 7, 2012 in Books, Movies, News, Sci-Fi and tagged amro attia, armitage, case, cyberpunk, Dune, Liam Neeson, Lord of the Rings, mark wahlberg, Neuromancer, operation screaming fist, splice, vincenzo natali, wintermute

Some recent news on the Neuromancer front: In addition to Mark Wahlberg and Liam Neeson being confirmed as the leading actors, who will be filling the roles of Case and Armitage, some rather interesting concept art has been revealed. Apparently, the art is the work of Amro Attia, a designer who has worked with director […]

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LOTR: The Two Towers

by storiesbywilliams on July 31, 2012 in Books, Reviews and tagged alan lee, arwen, barad-dur, Blackwater, boromir, cirith ungol, edoras, elves, Ents, eomer, faramir, frodo baggins, gandalf the white, gollum, gondor, helm hammerhand, helm's deep, hobbits, hornburg, isengard, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, men, meriadic brandybuck, merry and pippin, minas morgul, minis tirith, mordor, oliphant, orcs, orthanc, osgiliath, peregrine took, riders of rohan, riders of the mark, rohan, rohirrim, sam and frodo, samwise gamgee, saruman, sauron, shelob's lair, smeagol, southrons, the dead marshes, the one ring, the return of the king, the ring goes east, the treason of isengard, the two towers, theoden, treebeard, uruk-hai, war of the last alliance

Welcome back! Last time, I took a much overdue trip down memory lane with the Fellowship of the Ring. Hope you liked the trip too! And now, we come to the second volume in the tale of Lord of the Rings, which just happens to be my favorite installment in the series. In addition to […]

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Game of Thrones (Season 2, ep.9)

by storiesbywilliams on May 28, 2012 in Novels, Reviews, Series and tagged battle of king's landing, Blackwater, cersei lannister, episode nine blackwater, game of thrones, game of thrones season two, George RR Martin, house tyrell, joffrey lannister, kings landing, Lord of the Rings, mud gate, podrick payne, sansa stark, Ser Bronn, ser gregor clegane, ser loras, shae, siege of king's landing, stannis baratheon, the king's gaurd, tyrion lannister, tyrion's giant chain, wildfire

On this Sunday past, we came to it at last… the siege of King’s Landing! After eight episodes building up to the climactic battle, it finally got underway. And as expected, it was pretty damn epic and bloody! And more importantly, it last all episode, no breaks! And as usual, I had some observation to […]

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Of Prequels And Why They Suck…

by storiesbywilliams on October 31, 2011 in Movies, Novels, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged adamantium, amidala, Anakin, anakin skywalker, batman, Christian Bale, christopher nolan, dark side, darth vader, empire, george lucas, hayden christensen, heath ledger, jack nicholson, Legacies, leia skywalker, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, luke and leia, luke skywalker, michael keaton, palpatine, prequels, republic, sabretooth, Star Wars, Star Wars prequels, stryker, the joker, tim burton, wolverine, x-men, x-men origins: wolverine

Looking back, I’ve noticed a sort of thread running through some of the posts I’ve made. And in truth, this thing was quite influential when it came to what inspired me to write science fiction in the first place. It began with the infamous Star Wars prequels, the movies which ruined what used to be […]

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V for Vendetta

by storiesbywilliams on October 21, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged adam sutler, Alan Moore, archbishop of cantebury, batman, Blade Runner, chancellor sutler, concentration camp, creedy, creepy creedy, david lloyd, default, deitrich, detective finch, fight club, finch, frank miller, game of thrones, gunpowder treason, Guy Fawkes, hugo weaving, john hurt, john standing, lifeboat britain, lord high chancellor, Lord of the Rings, natalie portman, natasha wightman, nazis, norsefire, nuclear holocaust, roger allam, sinead cusack, stephen fry, stephen rea, the dark knigh returns, the matrix, tim pigott-smith, V for Vendetta, v for vendetta 2006 movie, v for vendetta comic, valerie, wachoswki brothers

Chances are, we all know people who are avid readers and swear up and down that a movie is never as good as an original novel. Man, those people can be annoying! However, as time goes on I find myself identifying with those people more and more. The difference between them and myself is, they […]

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Updated Review List

by storiesbywilliams on August 26, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 28 days later, A Clockwork Orange, A Scanner Darkly, Akira, Alien, aliens, Aliens franchise, anime, Avatar, Blade Runner, children of men, classics, District 9, Dune, Dune 1984, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ghost in the shell, i robot, Impostor, Inception, Independence Day, iron man, Lord of the Rings, metropolis, movie reviews, movies, ninja scroll, Paycheck, Philip k dick, PKD, Predator, Predator 2, Predators, princess mononoke, Reviews, Sci-Fi, sci-fi movie reviews, sci-fi movies, science, science fiction, Screamers, Soderberg, Solaris, starship troopers, Strange Days, sunshine, T2, Terminator franchise, Terminator Salvation, The Adjustment Bureau, The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars prequels, The Terminator, Tron, twelve monkeys, V for Vendetta, vampire hunter d, wall-e, watchmen, Willow

Hello, and welcome to my updated review list. After many, many reviews and plenty of change-ups in the lineup, I decided it was time to revise my master playlist. I do this mainly for the sake of being succinct, seeing as how I put up three in the last two months. The first was dedicated […]

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