Battlestar Galactica 1.0

DEEP SPACE RUMBLE. The new Battlestar Galactica 1.0 is fantastic. I finished watching the first season. This is not a remake, it is a complete rebuild. I can think of no series that has better written stories. They have made the Cylons look like humans, and this alone adds a dynamic that elevates this series into the realm of great story telling. Complicate this with the tension between the civilian and military leaders of a civilization on the brink of extinction from a superior foe and you have movie magic. I recommed this highly. It is as good as Firefly or Star Trek The Next Generation. Watch it.

THE GOLDEN GLOBE

I have just finished reading THE GOLDEN GLOBE by John Varley. This novel marks his first extensive use of flashbacks as a narrative device. Varley breaks the reader into the concept slowly, and handles the technique so deftly that there is never any confusion as to which parts are past, and which are present. It is interesting to realize that your mind places the story in chronological order regardless of the order in which the story segments were presented. Varley uses this to force the reader's mind to frequently revise the memory of the story as older pieces fall into place. This is a great book and deserves its place in my top ten. Varley is one of my favorites. Because of his proven ability to entertain and amaze, I automatically buy and read anything with his name on it. This novel is the second installment of his "Metal Trilogy;" The first was STEEL BEACH. The rumored third is reportedly to be titled IRONTOWN BLUES.

THE NEW TIME TRAVELERS by David Toomey

I finished reading THE NEW TIME TRAVELERS by David Toomey. Although published in 2007, the physics of time-travel has not advanced much beyond that of Nahin's book TIME MACHINES. I found Toomey's book to be clearly written, and a good refresher on the subject. He delves into all the pertinent issues including "free-will," "causality violation," "paradoxes," and "quantum weirdness." Research into time-travel seems to be at a standstill pending a working theory of "quantum gravity." The book is an overview of the history of the concept of time-travel in the realm of theoretical physics. It is the most up to date work that I know of, and important for that reason.