G.L. Breedon's Blog

Years ago, I wrote a blog post with my favorite ten scifi films. I thought it would be fun to update and revise that list, but in doing so I have expanded it well beyond ten. These are listed in chronological order because my brain is not good at ranking the things is love — […]

The second season of Amazon Prime’s The Wheel of Time series ended a few weeks ago so I thought a short review might be in order as well as a few thoughts on the whole process of adapting fiction to TV. (Caution: There will be mild spoilers for the first two seasons, but not the […]

I recently watched this youtube video about how to use seven short prompts to have AI write a novel for you. It bothered me, because I feel that if you are going to do that then you need to tell people the book they are buying was really written by AI, but also because I […]

I have always had an odd fascination with sci-fi films from the 1950s. More than any other decade the films of the 1950s have always seemed to epitomize the classic sci-fi story tropes: Space Travel and Exploration, Alien Invasion, Atomic Apocalypse, and Mutant Madness. Maybe I was influenced by reading my grandfather’s old copies of […]

I recently rewatched one of my favorite scifi films, Forbidden Planet (1956). I did not ask my wife to watch it with me as we had viewed it for one of my birthday scifi film festivals a few years ago. My wife’s enthusiasm for scifi films from the 1950s does not approach my own — in the […]

I recently rewatched one of my favorite scifi films, Forbidden Planet (1956). I did not ask my wife to watch it with me as we had viewed it for one of my birthday scifi film festivals a few years ago. My wife’s enthusiasm for scifi films from the 1950s does not approach my own — […]

(Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay ) I am a heretic. At least when it comes to my appreciation of scifi and, to a lesser degree, fantasy. I find myself drawn to and appreciating many of the things that general fans of the genre disdain and disliking the things they esteem. For instance, my favorite Star Trek film is […]

It’s been a while since I posted here. Life has been busy. Moving house among other things. Writing has been slower than I would like, but that is always the case. Because time is always limited, I thought I’d post something that has been sitting on my shelf for a while. A few years ago, […]

This review of Amazon’s Wheel of Time TV series is terribly late. I posted a version of it on facebook months ago and in my newsletter, but I figured since the series is still getting bad reviews on Amazon from disgruntled book fans, I would add it here. I love The Wheel of Time books […]