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First Trailer for Star Wars: Solo!

Hey, Nerf Herders! The first full trailer for “Star Wars: Solo” is out! Sadly, though, Han looks nothing like Han. But at least they found an actor who looks like Chewie (I say, with tongue in cheek). On the other hand, Donald Glover really does look like a young Lando....

SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy

SpaceX has successfully launched their new Falcon Heavy rocket! This was the massive rocket’s first test launch, and Elon Musk had given it a 50/50 chance of blowing up. But the launch was literally picture perfect, and rocket succeeded not only in delivering its cargo into orbit, but also managed...

Marvel’s Black Panther Is Almost Here

The latest movie addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost here, and if your not excited about it after seeing this trailer then… Well, I’m sorry, but I don’t actually have a pithy come back for that. So, just try to be excited.

‘Twas The Rocket Before Christmas…

On Friday, December 22nd, 2017, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenburg Air Force base, near Los Angeles, at around about 5:30 PST (around sunset). This was nothing unusual, but what was usual was the atmospheric conditions, and the fact that the rocket’s contrail caught the sunlight at a...

The Last Jedi: A Quick Review

This is my quick review of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. A quick review because I don’t have time to do a longer one, and more importantly, to keep things spoiler free. In short, despite all the mixed reviews out there, my opinion is that “The Last Jedi” ranks right...

Marvel Cinematic Universe Tribute

Turn your volume up as far as you can stand and get ready to place this absolutely awesome music video tribute to the MCU. It’s made all the more awesome by Queen’s “We Will Rock You!” If you’re not already excited about the upcoming “Infinity War” movie, I think this...

Avengers: Infinity War Trailer

The Avengers: Infinity War trailer has just come out! Everything in the Marvel Universe line up has been building to this, from the Iron Man movies, to Thor, Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and the other Avenger movies, comes the final battle against the arch-villain of...

The Clockwork Horseman

My steampunk fantasy short story, The Clockwork Horseman, is published and available now on both Amazon and Lulu and it can be found in the anthology Devil’s Armory III. Alas, there does not appear to be an e-book version! Oh well. The story will one day be available in e-book...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” trailer is out! And wow… It’s a doozy. There as also a good trailer breakdown and analysis on ScreenRant.com, and SyFy.com has one as well.

Fare Thee Well, Cassini

Launched in 1997 and arriving at Saturn in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission was a phenomenal success, lasting some 10 years beyond its initial 3 year mission. The spacecraft gave us thousands of pictures of Saturn, gigabytes of scientific data, and launched the Huygens probe into Titan, giving never-before-seen footage of...