Alcatraz

Alcatraz is the story of time traveling murders and the people who want to catch them before they kill again.  It’s a good show on many levels, the actors are great, the production values are high, and who doesn’t long for a glimpse of the good old days of prison life in the early 1960s? The problem with all new Sci Fi shows is that the Sci Fi fan base has a very long memory and it’s all but impossible to come up with something completely new.  Alcatraz has the look and feel of Fringe, The X-Files, Prison Break, LOST, The…

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The Masters of Solitude

Modern Post Apocalyptic stories has a pretty dim view of the future.  The Terminator has mankind crushed by intelligent machines.  The Road has all life coming to an end.  The Matrix has man surviving as nothing more than fuel cells for more evil machines.  Waterworld is a wet world filled with evil people.  The Postman and Mad Max are a dry worlds filled with evil people.  My favorite post apocalyptic books are by Octavia Butler and deal with a world where all kinds of bad things happen, but there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.…

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