I listened to The Draco Tavern on a recent trip to Tyler. It’s a series of short stories which are loosely related to each other, but the only real constant is the Bartender Rick Schumann. Rick Schumann is characterized brilliantly by narrator Tom Weiner. He has the perfect touch as a 1940s Film Noir character running a space age watering hole. My father in law was a huge fan of sci fi and grew up reading the pulps and listening to the radio. Now it needs to be said here that radio was the perfect format for science fiction-and by…
Category: great sci fi
Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is looking like it will be a good show. There are tons of cool images that go with the show and it looks like the effects are going to be pretty good. I saw the trailer of The Terminator at a Star Trek Convention. The general feeling that Arnold was the perfect actor to play an emotionless, inarticulate robot proved to be right. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will have a pretty woman playing the Terminator-Summer Glau. She was the crazy girl on Firefly, though she has done a lot more than that. The Terminator…