Tuesday, May 15, 2018

CONTRIBUTOR PROFILE: Spacefaring Kitten

Last but not least we welcome Spacefaring Kitten, who you may know from the sardonic review blog, Spacefaring, Extradimensional Happy Kittens. I've long been a fan of Spacefaring Kitten's writing and am thrilled this galactic feline traveler aboard our ship!   


NAME: Spacefaring Kitten

SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: Small Magellanic Cloud

NERD SPECIALIZATION(S): science fiction, comics, fantasy

MY PET PEEVES IN NERD-DOM ARE: (Pseudo)historical characters with modern-day values

VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, ZOMBIES, ALIENS OR ROBOTS: Weird, weird aliens

RIGHT NOW I'M READINGNinefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

...AND A COUPLE BOOKS I RECENTLY FINISHED AREBlack Bolt: Hard Times written by Saladin Ahmed and illustrated by Christian Ward and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

NEXT TWO ON QUEUE ARERaven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee and October by China MiƩville

MY FAVORITE SUPERHERO AND SUPER-VILLAIN ARE: Ozymandias and Magneto

IF I WERE A SUPERHERO/VILLAIN, MY POWER WOULD BE: Procrastination and feeding cats beef sticks.

THE BEST COMIC FILM OF THE PAST 5 YEARS ISLego Batman

THE WORST COMIC FILM OF THE PAST 5 YEARS ISAvengers: Age of Ultron

I JUST WATCHED Black Panther AND IT WAS AWESOME

I JUST WATCHED Hellraiser: Hellseeker AND IT WAS TERRIBLE

EVERYONE SHOULD SEE The Punk Syndrome BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE:
It's a documentary about a Finnish punk band of four developmentally disabled guys.

BEST SCIENCE/SPECULATIVE FICTION SHOW OF THE PAST 10 YEARSOrphan Black

WORSE ENDING--LOST OR BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Huh, was there something wrong with the ending of Battlestar Galactica?

THE OFFICE--BRITISH OR AMERICAN VERSIONThe Office is the one exception to the rule that everything British is always better.

GAME OF THRONES--LIKE OR DISLIKE DEVIATIONS FROM THE BOOKS: I haven't read the books, so I am unmoved. I was saving them for the (ever-distancing) day the series is finished.