Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A group of people, bound together for some reason on a space ship, fly through the galaxy sometimes solving other people’s problems but usually just creating more of their own… It’s a known trope but another new show uses it really well.
The New Age of Morality Act is now law. But people are still doing everything they had been just a lot more were now in jail. How well do you think the people of the Republic are going to react to this?
This week, in the first of two parts, we discuss how the New Age of Morality Act came to be. An act that was intended to make the Republic a better place and its people a better people.
Colin review’s John Scalzi’s book Lock In, as the second part of his winter holiday reading marathon. It’s a complex book that deals with a lot of interesting themes but is also a fast paced mystery.
An astronaut finds himself stuck on Mars, alone. Best case, a rescue mission is a year away. How will he ever survive? Colin reviews The Martian, a fascinating novel that’s equal parts science and survival.
