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NASA: The World Will Not End on Dec. 21st, 2012

by storiesbywilliams on December 17, 2012 in News, Science, Space, Video and tagged 2012, 9/11, AIDS, apocalypse, armaggedon, bath salts zombie, dec 21st, ebola virus, fall of rome, ghengis khan, hurricane katrina, jesus, mayan calendar, mayan prophecy, millennium, NASA, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, outbreak, the black death, the cold war, the end of days, the great war, the rapture, the stand, wwIII, Y2K

It seems NASA spends untold resources trying to debunk conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions. Sad, when you consider all the wonderful uses this time and energy could be dedicated towards, like putting people on Mars! In any case, and in anticipation for this coming Friday (and Saturday, if all goes well!), I thought I’d share […]

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Favorite Cult Classics (Part The First)

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

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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Video Game Review: The Modern Warfare Series

by storiesbywilliams on July 26, 2012 in Reviews, Video games and tagged ac-130, activision, British Special Air Services, call of duty 4: modern warfare, captain john price, chernobyl disaster, COD MW, gaz, Imran Zakhaev., Khaled Al-Asad, lieutenant vasquez, m1a1 abrams, Middle East, modern warfare series, nuclear proliferation, nuclear war, post-cold war, pripyat, Russian ultra-nationalists, SAS, Sergeant Paul Jackson, soap mctavish, ukraine, USMC

Morning all, or afternoon or evening as the case may be. Lousy time zones! Today, I thought I’d get back to my promise of reviewing video games by tackling a series I’ve been wanting to get into for some time. Like most geeks, and just about all guys, I am a fan of first person […]

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The Post-Apocalypse in Sci-Fi (Part III)

by storiesbywilliams on July 24, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged cold war, robert a heinlein, post-apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, world war III, nuclear war, vietnam war, the time machine, h.g. wells, gary oldman, shadow on the hearth, morlocks and eloi, the time traveller, judith merril, a canticle for leibowitz, the book of eli, albertian monks, order of leibowitz, atlantic confederacy, asian coalitan, quo peregrinatur grez pastor secum, whither wanders the flock the shepher is with them, texarkana, by the waters of babylon, the place of the gods, stephen vincent benet, farnham's freehold, the quiet earth, the effect, john hobson, perrin, apirana maketuin, api, gladys mitchell, the security office, denzel washington, carnegie, solara, mila kunis, the curator, malcolm mcdowell, lombardi, the bible, church versus state, cyclical history, walter m miller jr., isaac edward leibowitz, simplification, simpletons, memorabilia, new rome, new dark ages, fiat homo, fiat lux, fiat voluntas tua, Let There Be Man, Let There Be Light, Thy Will Be Done

The Book of Eli: This 2010 movie – starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and directed by the Hughes Brothers – takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States thirty years after nuclear war has left it a scarred and desolate place. Enter into this a wandering nomad named Eli (Washington), a man who is wandering to […]

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The Post-Apocalypse in Sci-Fi (Part II)

by storiesbywilliams on June 30, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Reviews, Books, Movies and tagged Will Smith, Akira, the matrix, post-apocalyptic, apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, neo-tokyo, judgement day, skynet, terminators, Battlestar Galactica, John Conner, The Terminator, neo, the one, nuclear war, I Am Legend, wwIII, jack london, sarah conner, commander adama, the resistance, charlton heston, omega man, robert neville, mutants, the city of ember, the builders, Jeanne DuPrau, Suzanne Martel, The City Under Ground, Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow, alas babylon, pat frank, the day, Fort Repose, Randy Bragg, Colonel Shikishima, tetsuo shima, Shotaro Kaneda, the espers, mr. anderson, the scarlet plaque, bsg, cormac mccarthy, the road, HK's

Akira: This futuristic tale takes place in Neo-Tokyo, an ultra-modern city that was built on the ruins of the old after an incident touched off World War III. This is a major them in the movie Akira and manga it was adapted from. Throughout the entire story, there is a pervasive sense of shock and […]

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The Post-Apocalypse in Sci-Fi

by storiesbywilliams on June 26, 2012 in Books, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged Sci-Fi, Philip k dick, Screamers, the road warrior, apocalypse, nuclear war, wwIII, apocalyptic, the hunger games, panem, katniss everdeen, second variety, science ficiton, stephen king, mad max, the capitol, district 12, a boy and his dog, wwIV, post-apocalyptic movies, post-apocalyptic novels, biological weapons, the stand, the postman, kevin costner, planet of the apes, charlton heston, mel gibson, mad max: beyond thunderdome, v-8 pursuit special, on the beach, nevil shute, pierre boulle, david brin, mother abagail, the trashman, randall flagg, superflu, super influenza

Thanks to the announcement of “Revolution”, and my impending lawsuit against NBC, JJ Abrams and anyone else who ripped me off, I’ve been thinking a lot about post-apocalyptic stories. This is a very fertile area, and some friends here once again had the foresight to mention examples in advance which I was sure to include. […]

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Ray Bradbury (1920 – 2012)

by storiesbywilliams on June 6, 2012 in Authors, Books, Reviews and tagged blue mars, burning books, burning bright, charles holloway, Clarisse McClellan, classic sci-fi, colonization of mars, dreamcatcher, f451, fantasy and horror, farhenheit 451, firemen, green mars, guy montag, IT, jim nightshade, kim stanley robertson, KSR Mars trilogy, marionette inc, martians, mr. dark, nuclear war, Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury dies, red mars, Sci-Fi, something wicked this way comes, stephen king, the exiles, the hearth and the salamander, the illustrated man, the man, the martian chronicles, the other foot, the sieve and the sand, the tatooed man, the veldt, william holloway

Yesterday, one of the greatest sci-fi minds of the 20th center, Ray Bradbury, died at the age of 91 after a lengthy illness. His publisher, HarperCollins, were apparently the ones to break the news to the world. Best known for his seminal dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury quickly joined the ranks of authors like Orwell, […]

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The Dark Knight Returns

by storiesbywilliams on October 19, 2011 in Books, Reviews and tagged batcave, batman, cold war, comics, commissioner gordon, corto maltese, DC comics, dictator president, dr. manhattan, dr. ruth, EMP, escalation, frank miller, gotham, gotham city, green arrow, harvey dent, kryptonite, mutant boss, nuclear war, nukes, powered armor, reagan, Reviews, superman, the batmobile, the dark knight, the dark knight returns, the dark knight rises, the joker, the twin towers, the watchmen, two-face, wto

While I’m riding this comic book turned movie high, I must mention one of the best comic books around and definitely one of the best installments in the Batman franchise ever. And while this comic has not yet been made into a movie per se, I do believe large tracts of it have been used […]

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The Watchmen

by storiesbywilliams on October 12, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 300, Alan Moore, alternate history, american dream, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, cold war, doomsday clock, dr. manhattan, electric car, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, nite owl, nixon, nuclear war, ozymandias, patrick wilson, richard nixon, Rorschach, silk specter, silk specter II, superheroes, the comedian, the watchmen, ussr, V for Vendetta, vietnam war, villains, zack snyder

Sometime last week, I finally got my hands on the original graphic novel of V for Vendetta. I figured that since I was going to review this movie at some point, I ought to read the source material and treat it like all the other adaptations I’ve covered so far with this blog. Interestingly enough, […]

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