Science Fiction

WAS the age of space opera. It's what I grew up on.

I am the least hipser-ish person you could ever meet.

My complaints about the Star Wars movie is that it's almost totally fight sequences, and has plot flaws you could drop a black hole into and never notice.

And if you're thinking I don't like modern science fiction, you're wrong. I will admit that fantasy and the entire sword and sorcery thing is totally lost to me, and I wish those genres were not subsumed into science fiction.

I like just about everything Robert Charles Wilson has written, as well as Jack McDevitt. I have been a huge fan of Harry Turtledove, but I've given up on him after his last two novels. Connie Willis. John Barnes. Ben Winter's The Last Policeman trilogy. He has a new one coming out Underground Airlines that's coming out in July and I can hardly wait to read it.

I will confess to an inordinate fondness for time travel and alternate history. Which reminds me, I really liked The Butterfly Effect, thought that was extremely well done.

Please, please, don't accuse me of hipsterism.