I read and enjoyed the Belgariad – in fact; it really shook me up, emotionally. I even cried. But this tripe – this Mallorean – five books of vacuous-ness of utterly wasted words on paper that poor trees were cut down to deliver! The horror, the horror! To say it was bad is an insult [...]
I’ve read all of Carol Berg’s novels and Son of Avonar is by far her best. She has evolved as a writer and storyteller and has managed to create something refreshing and new in the field of Fantasy – believable, fallible and human characters.Her character work has always been her strong suit, in that even [...]
I cannot tell you how sick to death I am of derivative epic fantasy novels. But I will. Why don’t people have original thoughts any more? Isn’t there something different you could do to your epic that doesn’t hearken back to Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time or Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth (my most hated [...]
I began with Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Chronicles long after their glory had been established. The original series, Chronicles, was published in 1986, the year I graduated high school. At the time, although I was an avid Dungeons & Dragons fan, I was more interested in the Forgotten Realms and had been playing [...]
For me to finally read the books that center on of one of the fantasy genre’s most beloved character’s (and one that I think everyone who ever played D&D in the Forgotten Realms world wanted to be) was a fait accompli. I had generally enjoyed many of the books I read under the Forgotten Realms [...]
Homeland, the first entry in the Legend of Drizzt saga, starts off with an astounding level of detail about the lives of the Drow in the Forgotten Realms. This is fantasy writing at its best. Rarely have I seen a fantasy character take shape so well and under such sinister and devastating circumstances. When I [...]
Charlie Evans, the Charlie X of the title has an immensely odd-shaped head. I mean, really bizarre. For me, it has always been the thing about this episode that upset me other than Spock’s spontaneous poetry reading, Yeoman Rands nipples poking through her pink dressing gown, Uhura’s extemporaneous song about Mr. Spock and his “devil [...]
I recall seeing this episode as one of my very first when I was about six years old in 1974. Star Trek had been off the air for five years and was run in the afternoons at four o’clock at the time. I had been introduced to Star Trek by my cousin Ricky (four years [...]
I’m very excited to announce that my friend Nikki Douglas will be contributing to Closet Sci-Fi Geek regularly as a “Guest Geek.” She has already started reviewing episodes from the original Star Trek series (just in time for the launch of the remastered Trek). Nikki’s posts will be listed as written by “mrs. kirk” and [...]
One of my favorites from early in the first season, this episode has the most heart-breaking scenes of Spock and Nurse Chapel. It establishes Spock’s conflict too between his human heart and Vulcan mind. Plus Mr. Sulu running through the corridors of the Enterprise bare-chested with a sword is well worth the price of admission. [...]
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