“Star Trek Discovery has been a wild ride for me. However, I wasn’t too keen about the U.S. S. Discovery when I first laid eyes on her.” By G.P. Avants If you have followed our blog or podcast for very long you know my love affair with space-faring vehicles. You can read about a piece…
Category: Sci-Fiction
Shazamily
By G.P. Avants Billy Batson was born into a world where parents were negligent and absent and superheroes were vigilant and very present. As he tries to find his lost long mother he is hounded by uncertain destiny. It keeps him on the run and never finding a place where he truly feels he…
Fiction’s Fearless Females: Hope VanDyne
By G. P. Avants With a tribute to the Fiction’s Fearless Females, I wanted to share my pick for a heroine who knows how to bid her time until it’s her time arises she sprouts her wings and fly. Usually the best characters are waiting in the wings while other heavy-hitters are in the heat…
Fiction’s Fearless Females: Hope VanDyne
By G. P. Avants With a tribute to the Fiction’s Fearless Females, I wanted to share my pick for a heroine who knows how to bide her time until her time arises she sprouts her wings and fly. Usually the best characters are waiting in the wings while other heavy-hitters are in the heat of…
The Lost (& Found) in Space
By G.P. Avants Have you ever felt like you are all alone in cosmos? The concept is called “cosmic loneliness”. Some in a crowded room or a huge noisy family, have actually experienced isolation or not feeling like they connect with anyone. In whatever space you are, you have feel lost, alone,…
Miles of Great Expectations
By G.P. Avants Sitting back in the theater I wasn’t sure what to expect from Sony’s Spiderman into the Spiderverse. It looked great from the outside, but it was a whole different experience once the lights went out. I knew something original and unique was about to transpire when everything about the opening credits…
A Bad Ass Princess
By G.P. Avants They all stand at the edge of a precipice. The remains of a broken Jupiter ship falls taking the wild-card-of-a-pilot, Don West, with it. Miraculously he climbs up the edge of the cliff to the shock of the other survivors. Don shakes off the dust and his pride. He comments…
Star Wars Apology
Hello to the team at Disney, Greetings from a few of us fans who want to drop some positive comments your way. Yes, Disney and Lucas Film have taken some flack and fan friction in the past few months. That’s not what this letter is about. …
Welcome to the Neighborhood & Double Reward Points
By G. P. Avants In the universe of Netflix series, Dark Matter the infamous tiny Blink Drive, which allows a ship to travel anywhere in space instantaneously, has another unexpected use, it can time travel. After a routine test it deposits the crew of the Raza into our time. For our friends from…
Episode #40 Fan-Fiction: Don’t Sweat it, Mr. Buckley (The British are coming! The British are coming!)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5tyc2-9af184 We made it to our fortieth episode and our fourth fan-fiction piece. This was a little time travel piece for the book Chronolocity. Hope you enjoy a journy into English fandom from across the sea.
#Free Fandom Forever!
By G.P. Avants There has been a great disturbance in the Force and the Star Wars franchise. Have you felt it? The tight knit fandom family feels like it’s unraveling a bit. One thing that I have always loved about the nerd and geek culture has been their united diversity. Visit any con…
Who’s the Brains in this Outfit?
By G. P. Avants Bruce Banner takes a breather. He is one of the four original Avengers that has survived Thanos’ balancing of the universe. He and the cowering Hulk are alone together inside the Hulkbuster having a little heart-to-heart chat. Banner: Okay, big guy. Hulk: What? Banner: It’s time we…
God Among Geeks 