The GMG SF/Fantasy/Horror Club

[Bogey]

Well, just grabbed this to tote my lunch back and forth to school each day:



There should be a few of my kiddos that will enjoy it.

[MN Dave]

Just received these books:

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, VOL. 5
THE SIXTH BLACK BOOK OF HORROR
DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE - A. Merritt

I've stopped fighting it. I'm always going to enjoy reading and writing pulp fiction.

[Bogey]

Just received these books:

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, VOL. 5
THE SIXTH BLACK BOOK OF HORROR
DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE - A. Merritt

I've stopped fighting it. I'm always going to enjoy reading and writing pulp fiction.

Absolutely!  The '28 novel I am reading above is pulpier than a FL orange on a sunny day.  Great stuff!...and very cool avatar.  Bruce Wayne from the 40's or 50's?

[MN Dave]

Great stuff!...and very cool avatar.  Bruce Wayne from the 40's or 50's?

Very good!

[Elgarian]

I just took a peep in here, but it's far too scary for me. And why are you all sitting around in a circle with the lights out?

[MN Dave]

...join us...  ...join us...  ...

I'm sorry Tarantino called a movie PULP FICTION, especially when I'm googling for the real deal.

[Bogey]

Brought this over from the movie thread as I will post my futre "B" sci-fi watching here:

As some of you know, we are big Disney geeks in our family.  When we hit Disney World, we always make it point to eat at the Sci-Fi Diner at the Hollywood Studios.  It is a kick eating out of a booth shaped like a car while we watch B sci-fi/horror trailers. Well, started something new here at the homestead.  Each weekend I am featuring a different "B" sci-fi or horror film that the whole family sits down and watches.  Commnentary during the film is encouraged and "big" prizes were given out during the viewing.  (This way, the rest of my family will actually show up for the flick.)  This weeks Sci-Fi Diner film (stole this name from Disney World) was The Monster That Challenged the World from 1957. 



What a hoot.  We had a grand time as I passed out gummy eyeballs, gummy lizards, and Pop Rocks (the really big prize) during the film. Add to this buttered popcorn and my seven year old daughter telling one of the actors, "Don't go in there!" and you have a perfect "drive-in" evening at home.

On a trivia note, it starred Tim Holt, the character Curtain from The Treasure of Sierra Madre.

Next week:



Does anyone else here enjoy these "oldies" with low level effects? 

[MN Dave]

You are a good dad.  0:)

[MN Dave]

 

[Bogey]

 

[Scarpia]

Following up on some earlier discussion, I've been watching some X-files on Netflix streaming and do find them very good (3rd season).  The "main story" episodes are usually a drag but the miscellaneous ones are very engaging.

[Bogey]

Following up on some earlier discussion, I've been watching some X-files on Netflix streaming and do find them very good (3rd season).  The "main story" episodes are usually a drag but the miscellaneous ones are very engaging.

The series "maintains" for a number of seasons and the "monster-one-shot" episodes are a treat.  Almost "Night Stalker" like in their stories. I plan on re-watching the whole run a few years down the road.  They will be interesting to revisit and were must see tv for me when they were coming out.

[MN Dave]

The "main story" episodes are usually a drag but the miscellaneous ones are very engaging.

You got that right.

[Lethevich]

Following up on some earlier discussion, I've been watching some X-files on Netflix streaming and do find them very good (3rd season).  The "main story" episodes are usually a drag but the miscellaneous ones are very engaging.

I totally agree. The 1st and 2nd series were great with their pure freak of the week concept. Series 3 begins to add "mythology" stuff but still has plenty of fun. If I didn't own all the DVDs already by picking them up cheaply one by one, I would fantasise about a compilation of all the stand-alone episodes of post-series 3. I think they would fill well under half the remaining discs that series 4-9 occupy

[Bogey]

Here is a partial synopsis:

A review by Victoria Strauss

In the far future universe of Richard K. Morgan's debut novel Altered Carbon, human consciousness has been digitized. Every human being is implanted at birth with a cortical stack, which records every second, every thought, every experience. If you have the money (or purchase the right insurance policy), you can be brought back to life after you die by the simple expedient of implanting your stack into a new body, a process known as sleeving. The penal system no longer stores live criminals, but only their digital selves. Travelers beam their minds across space via needlecast, and wake up in new sleeves. Wars are fought by troops whose minds are downloaded into bodies on-site -- troops like the Envoy Corps, the enforcement arm of the despotic UN Protectorate, which rules Earth and its colony worlds with an iron fist.

Takeshi Kovacs is a former Envoy. Envoys' specialized training and neurochemical enhancements, designed to make them perfect long-distance warriors and flawless investigators, also place them just this side of psychopathic. Many Envoys, when discharged from the Corps, turn to crime, and Kovacs is no exception. Sentenced on his home planet to more than a century of storage for his part in a brutal heist, Kovacs wakes to find himself in Bay City, Earth, housed in an unfamiliar sleeve. He's been retrieved and hired by industrialist Laurens Bancroft, whose fabulous wealth allows him, among other things, to maintain a clone facility that renders him and his family effectively immortal. Kovacs' assignment: to investigate Bancroft's death in a previous body, which the police have ruled a suicide but which Bancroft is certain was attempted murder.

Sounds kind of Blade Runner-ish, so I am in!

[snyprrr]

I finally happened upon this hilarious Swedish sci-fi movie from 1958, terror in the Midnight Sun.

ahhh, if yer looking for a really good ole time, just go to YOUTUBE AND PUNCH IT UP.

(Caps?) \\

It's full ov yer foony accents, and a very silly 20 foot snowman.


Get the popcorn and yer hunny!



I expects me some raving replies!

[bwv 1080]

Anyone else seen Calvaire (Ordeal), the French horror movie?

This scene is classic:

http://www.youtube.com/v/1owrlQlLExY

[Lethevich]

I didn't know about this, it seems a really cute idea:

The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where (as of December 2008) 112 full books can be downloaded free in a number of formats, without copy protection.

[MN Dave]

I knew about it but haven't downloaded anything yet.

[Lethevich]

I do have my doubts about quality - it includes a sizable series which takes bits of Lord Nelson's biography and applies them to a female space captain (David Weber's Honor Harrington character) The good attitude of the publishers and authors do make me want to give them a try, though.