Author Archives: Zombrarian

Super Women

August 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

Longtime readers and listeners will know that we here at SFSN love to see women involved in geeky things. This is partially because many of us *are* women involved in geeky things. That’s why we’re very excited to tell you about the Womanthology Kickstarter project: The purpose of the book is to show support for […]

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National Library Week for Geeks!

April 11th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

National Library Week kicked off yesterday and continues (shockingly!) all week. Dates to note are Tuesday, which is National Library Workers Day (just so you know, Zombrarian loves chocolate and works in a library, no pressure…), and Thursday, which is Support Teen Literature Day (remember, lots of classic Sci Fi/Fantasy started off as teen literature). […]

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Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

March 18th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

Title: Sunshine Author: Robin McKinley Format: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Sometimes, your beloved Zombrarian falls into despair. See, she loves her some vampire books, but vampire books are apparently really hard to write. She knows they are really hard to write because most of them really suck (and not in a good way).  She’s going to […]

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Print Me Up Some Fries With That

March 7th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact

   3-D printers, which have been growing in popularity since 2003, are cropping up a lot in the news lately. 3-D printers work by depositing any extrudable substance (for example: plastics or ceramic) in successive layers until the printed object is the size and shape desired. Although we won’t have replicators in our homes […]

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Witch and Wizard Makes Zombrarian…zzzzzzzzz

February 24th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

Title: Witch & Wizard Author: James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet Format: Paperback (available in tons of other formats too, including e-book) My aunt gave me Witch and Wizard as a Christmas gift because she knows about my obsessive love for the Hunger Games trilogy and had heard that Witch and Wizard was going to be […]

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Am I mad? I don’t even know!

November 22nd, 2010 | Posted in TV

I admit that I am behind on The Walking Dead (I have not yet seen the November 21 episode).  And usually, I would leave commentary on the show to The Dome so as not to clog the blog (heh. poet=me).  Don’t worry, this isn’t about to become a blog solely dedicated to The Walking Dead, […]

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You Know What Happens When One Assumes…

November 5th, 2010 | Posted in Literature

Title: My Best Friend is a Wookie Author: Tony Pacitti Format: Hardcover (also available for Kindle) I will admit that I approached Tony Pacitti’s memoir My Best Friend is a Wookie with some trepidation. The cover was adorable, but I feared that what lurked behind it would be trite platitudes and some sickening fanwank about […]

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Ten Things I Learned at Rifftrax:

August 20th, 2010 | Posted in Events

1. I need to issue a formal apology to Kriana. She did not have really bad B.O. The guy behind me was just smoking the skunkiest weed in the history of the Earth. Seriously dude, it’s your life, but you should be aware that there’s pot out there that won’t make the people around you […]

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Douglas Clegg Boils Frogs, or, This is How Rumors Start

March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Literature

You know that “fun fact” about the frog in boiling water? The one where if you drop the frog into water that’s already boiling it will freak out because it hurts; but if you put the frog in cool water, then turn on the heat, the frog will calmly sit there and boil to death […]

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Is Realistic Fantasy an Oxymoron?

February 7th, 2010 | Posted in Literature

Not in Finnikin of the Rock by award-winning author Melina Marchetta, which is set to be released this month (February 2010).

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