Category Archives: Science Fiction

2012 Reads in Review

Posted on 28/12/2012 by fishinthewater

Hello, blog. I’m still not sure I’m going to start blogging again. I go back and forth. But, because I’ve been keeping the list, I’m going to post it. I read a lot more this year than I have read … Continue reading →

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The Hunger Games, Part 2

Posted on 04/07/2012 by fishinthewater

*major spoiler alert do not read if you don’t want to know the ending!* I had this plan. I was going to finish the Hunger Games, all three books, and then I was going to write this piece about how … Continue reading →

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The Hunger Games

Posted on 14/06/2012 by fishinthewater

So I’ve been binge reading, which is kind of my reward to myself for quitting my job. It’s one of the things I used to spend every spare moment doing, and then somehow the spare moments turned into stolen moments … Continue reading →

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Social Media Blah Blah Blah

Posted on 13/10/2011 by fishinthewater

You know, all I hear about anymore is social media. At work it’s all, we have to advertise through social media. In the news, it’s all “the power of social media!” And every time I get on facebook there’s some … Continue reading →

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Terra Nova

Posted on 03/10/2011 by fishinthewater

Yeah, I’m back to sci fi. There’s this new show on, Terra Nova, about how in the future the environment is still collapsing, and people can’t breathe, etc. But magically! a portal opens back to the time of the dinosaurs! … Continue reading →

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Campaign Finances

Posted on 18/08/2011 by fishinthewater

I’m going to go off on a total nerd tangent for a minute (as if this whole series hasn’t been one long indulgence in my nerd tendencies). One thing in particular has always bothered me about Star Wars (even more … Continue reading →

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Dumbledore’s Army

Posted on 17/08/2011 by fishinthewater

Before I get too far away from Harry Potter, I want to revisit The Order of the Phoenix (Book 5). One of my favorite things throughout the last three books is the DA- the Defense Association, or Dumbledore’s Army. Essentially, … Continue reading →

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Spreading the Word

Posted on 16/08/2011 by fishinthewater

Spreading the word is always one of the first steps of “revolution.” You see this again and again in science fiction. What’s the first thing the characters in Harry Potter do when Voldemort returns? They try to alert people to … Continue reading →

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Media Control

Posted on 15/08/2011 by fishinthewater

Speaking of the media (as I was at the end of last week). Harry Potter is very easily dismissed as a series of children’s books. It’s very easily dismissed as a lot of things- after all, anything that becomes that … Continue reading →

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Mind Control, Part 2

Posted on 11/08/2011 by fishinthewater

Yesterday I introduced the idea of “dolls”- that most people, right now, are dolls, programmed to believe certain things. Programmed to react in certain ways to certain stimuli. Even if we haven’t gotten to the full on brain wipe-personality implant-sleeper … Continue reading →

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