Up until about a month ago, I had never watched a single episode of “Adventure Time.” I love Cartoon Network and their avant-garde programming but “Adventure Time” was something I hadn’t gotten into. That has since changed. I recently got the chance to watch and review the Blu-Ray release of “Adventure Time: The Complete Third…
Over the past few weeks the boyfriend and I had the chance to try out the Turtle Beach XL1 headset. Despite the fact that we have different gaming styles, his more on multiplayer games with friends and mine a solo adventure, we both got an excellent experience. The Turtle Beach XL1 XBOX 360 headset is…
From the first page of “Mind’s Eye,” author Douglas E. Richards draws you in to his tale of ESP, conspiracy, love, and a future that seems more probable every day. When Nick Hall wakes up in a dumpster–bloodied, without a memory, and hearing voices in his head–he knows things are bad. But they’re about to…
I began this year as I begin most years, reading science fiction. So when Tor Books announced they were releasing a compilation of 2013’s best science fiction short stories, I was thrilled. “YEAR’S BEST SF 18″ was edited by the critically acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. In his collection he includes astonishing stories…
2013 was an amazing year for science and space. We as a culture fell in love with astronaut Chris Hadfield and our top scientists took us several steps further in space exploration. Included below are some of favorite and coolest things that The Pop Culture Pulse saw over the year. We can’t post every single ISS…
The newest science fiction tale from writer Douglas Richards effortlessly weaves in a believable modern-day setting with a race to save the world from ourselves in the face of sure destruction. THE CURE ponders the questions, what if you found the cure for the psychopathic condition? Would you break the law to use it? Would you…
You may have read the novel “Into The Wild,” the 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer, or have seen the film adaptation. It followed the brief life of Christopher McCandless and his unfortunate and untimely death in the Alaskan wilderness. The novel took me through a wide range of emotions from anger, frustration, sadness, and overwhelming…
