science fiction – ILSA J. BICK

Oh, and one more thing

Posted by Ilsa Posted on October 31, 2010 0 Comments

Posted in Recommended Reads and Listens, Uncategorized Tagged dramatizations, H.G. Wells, Halloween, Orson Welles, radio, science fiction

And speaking of listens, HOW could I have forgotten that seventy-two years ago yesterday–on October 30, 1938–Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air terrorized America with this splendid radio adaptation of War of the Worlds? I first heard…

October 2010 Recommended Reads, Listens . . . and Looks

Posted by Ilsa Posted on October 31, 2010 0 Comments

Posted in Recommended Reads and Listens Tagged audiobooks, draw the dark, dystopian novels, film studies, ilsa j. bick, joshua swanson, michael grant, movies, mystery, paranormal, patrick ness, recommended reads, science fiction, stephen king, Steven Spielberg, YA

I am in love with my portable DVD player. Seriously. Not only has that little, relatively inexpensive piece of tech saved me from soul-sucking, gym-induced, elliptical/stairmaster/treadmill insanity, it has reminded me, yet again, of how well some movies work when…