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The Bird Box – Josh Malerman

06 Monday Aug 2018

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I finished this fantastic book last night, and like great books often do, I was wound-up tight and then in tears as the final scene unfolded. So good, different, unique! The Bird Box movie is coming out in late 2018, with Sarah Paulsen, John Malkovich, and Machine Gun Kelly, starring Sandra Bullock as Malorie, but read the book first! Josh Malerman’s descriptive writing style shakes the reader’s visual imagination by introducing us to a  dangerous and challenging new world.

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can’t lift their heads to gaze upon them?”

“You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.”

“Robin was a great kid. Smarter than her father at eight years old. She liked the oddest things. Like the instructions for a toy more than the toy itself. The credits of a movie instead of the movie. The way something was written. An expression on my face. Once she told me I looked like the sun to her, because of my hair. I asked her if I shined like the sun, and she told me, ‘No, Daddy, you shine more like the moon, when it’s dark outside.”

“You are saving their lives for a life not living.”

“It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

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Mad Max & Ex Machina

02 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Saw Mad Max then snuck into Ex Machina Sunday evening. Mad Max was pure violence, blood, action, Charlize awesome as always. Ex Machina was cerebral, nuanced, made you look at A.I. in a different way..,both were very good! I love nerdy Domhnall Gleeson, who was great in About Time and is in the new Star Wars.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer

18 Saturday Apr 2015

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Luke is talking about Jaina Solo, daughter of Han Solo & Leia Organa, in this trailer. Jaina is the most powerful Jedi of the New Order, known as the Sword of the Jedi. Her twin brother Jacen Solo is equally as strong, however he is lured to the dark side of the Force, becoming the Sith Lord Darth Cadeus. The twins have a younger brother, Anakin, and Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker have a son who grows strong in the Force, young Ben Skywalker. Lowbacca is Jaina’s Chewbacca, his mother is Chewie’s sister, but unlike Chewie Lowie is a powerful Jedi in his own right. Dathomirian Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress, who I love, is reportedly the beautiful Lupita Nyong’o, who I love. Finally, J.J. Abrams is possibly the cutest man in the world.

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Jaina & Jacen Solo, Lowbacca, Tenel Ka, Anakin Solo, Zekk & Tahiri Veila (droid is Em-Teedee, Lowie’s sidekick)

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Jupiter Ascending vs. Seventh Son (suck)

13 Friday Feb 2015

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When I’m tired and feeling low, I hide in the movies and forget the day, which is what I did on this last Sunday. I paid $8 for the matinee Jupiter Ascending at Cobb Hialeah, then snuck into the 5 o’clock Seventh Son. Mistake. Big Mistake. Huge. I knew that both of these movies cost over $100 million to make and had bombed spectactularly. Turns out, deservedly so…

Jupiter Ascending was almost okay, some cool visual effects and and flying lizard bad guys, but Channing Tatum as an alien human/wolf/hybrid lycanthrope mercenary with pointy elf ears and Mila Kunis as a poor, lonely maid scrubbing toilets sharing a one-room apartment with her mother and aunt (also maids) in the Bronx…c’mon man.

Seventh Son honestly looked like a Syfy movie, a bad one. I was initially excited, because Jon Snow was the 7th Son to start the movie, but a dragon Julianne Moore killed him in like 30 seconds, and he was replaced by…generic don’t remember white guy. They must have paid dragon Julianne Moore a shitload of money to be in this shitty movie for real though, and remember when Jeff Bridges used to be fine, in like 2004? He looks older than his own mother in this wannabe brbokedown Gandalf role! Beau was always the cuter Bridges to me anyway, with his little chubby cheeks 🙂

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Lowbacca

29 Thursday Jan 2015

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Lowbacca or “Lowie” was a Wookiee Jedi Knight during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Lowbacca was born to Kallabow and Mahraccor, with his mother Kallabow being the sister of the famous Rebel hero Chewbacca. He studied at Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Praxeum and was a companion of Jaina Solo, Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka. He wielded a bronze-bladed lightsaber. Lowbacca was to Jaina Solo what Chewbacca was to her father Han Solo, best friend and lifelong companion, except the force is strong in Lowbacca, and Jaina Solo would become the Sword of the Jedi, as powerful as her uncle Luke. Being a Wookiee, Lowbacca was a rarity among Jedi, as Force-sensitives were even less common among Wookiees than among other species, one being born only every century or so.

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Jaina & Jacen Solo, Lowbacca, Tenel Ka, Anakin Solo (younger brother), Tahiri, and Zekk (The droid is Em-Teedee)

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Lowbacca & Jaina Solo

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Lowbacca with Han & Leia’s twins, Jaina & Jacen Solo (Jacen would become the Sith Lord Darth Cadeus)

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Asajj Ventress

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Asajj Ventress was a female Dathomirian Dark Jedi and a valuable Dark Acolyte to Count Dooku. Originally a Nightsister from Dathomir, Ventress was taken as a slave to Rattatak and trained as a Jedi Padawan by Jedi Knight Ky Narec. However, after Narec was slain, Ventress gave into her anger and began walking the path of the dark side; taking up the lightsaber of her dead master, she trained herself in the Jar’Kai style of lightsaber combat, before slaying all the warlords on Rattatak and installing herself as its ruler.

Eventually, Ventress’s actions came to the attention of Count Dooku, and after a test of her abilities, she became a commander in the Confederacy of Independent Systems. She had yearned to learn the ways of the Sith from Dooku and believed if she had proved herself worthy, she would become his apprentice.

During the Clone Wars, she became one of the most feared beings in the galaxy, notorious for her defeat of several Jedi. As the war continued, Ventress became the bitter enemy of both Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Recruited by Dooku, Ventress became a Sith aspirant and embarked on a vicious killing spree against the Jedi as a Separatist commander during the Clone Wars. However, her general obsession over the Jedi eventually developed into a specific obsession over Obi-Wan Kenobi. It is unknown why she focused on Kenobi, but his frequent escapes from death at her hands likely had something to do with it. Interestingly enough, their banter during battle occasionally had a pseudo-romantic theme, with Kenobi frequently referring to her as either “my sweet” or “my darling.”

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The beautiful Lupita Nyong’o is rumored to be cast as Asajj Ventress in the upcoming Star Wars trilogy.

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Dathomirians

Dathomirian females tended to have pale gray or white skin and usually blue or silvery eyes, and tall and thin bodies. Their male counterparts more closely resembled Zabrak, muscular and powerfully-built who sported skin patterns similar to Sith tattoos and cranial horns. Females tended to exhibit a certain athleticism, while males usually possessed powerful strength. All Dathomirian specimens were Force-sensitive, though this was due to the genetic Forceful component of the female Human Nightsisters that helped breed the subspecies. Darth Maul, Savage Opress and Mother Taizin, Queen of the Nightsisters, are all Dathomirian.

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Defiance – Syfy

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

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The 2nd season starts Thursday June 19th!!!

The story begins in the year 2046: Earth has been radically transformed, causing changes in topography, the extinction of plant and animal species, and the emergence of new species. The series follows Joshua Nolan and his adopted Irathient daughter Irisa, who have put down roots in Defiance, a city-state community where humans and several extraterrestrial races, collectively known as Votans, coexist over the partially re-built ruins of St. Louis.

Of the 8 Votan races, my favorites are the IRATHIENTS, which includes Irisa and a secondary character that is a favorite of mine, Rynn Sukar.
” Irathients are a proud, tribal people with a deep love of the natural world and aggressive demeanor. They are often perceived as feral by others. Irathients are handsome and naturally athletic. They are fierce fighters and pride themselves on their low-tech hand-to-hand combat skills. They resent the Castithans sense of superiority. Irathients view Humans as crude and lacking respect for the natural world.”

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“CASTITHANS appear very similar to humans. Their coloration is very pale, however, verging on albinism, with pale white skin, white hair, and pale yellow eyes. The Castithan society is aristocratic and hierarchical, and the other Votan races view them as arrogant. The higher-caste Castithans living on Earth tended to assume that they could treat the other Votan races as essentially their new lower-castes, feeling they should lead the Votanis Collective while the other races serve them.” Another favorite character of mine is Stahma Tarr, Datak Tarr’s wife. While Datak is the leader of his people, Stahma is the real power, running the show from behind the scenes.

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The Dune Universe

19 Saturday Apr 2014

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The Dune Universe

“My brother is coming, for he is the Kwisatz Haderach”

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“He who controls the spice controls the universe”

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MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood

14 Friday Mar 2014

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MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood

I liked Year of the Flood and loved Oryx and Crake. MaddAddam is the final, and best, offering in this trilogy.

A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.

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“Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humor, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.”

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“She is about to add, “I have scars, inside me,” but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she’d have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out.”

“He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.”

“Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble babble, he overdid it so much that he sounded preposterous, and in an outfit like Bearlift, with its full quota of preposterous green-hued furfuckers, that took some effort.”

“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”

“The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.”

“what is ‘belief’ but a willingness to suspend the negatives?”

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Meredith NicEssus, Queen of the Sluagh and the Unseelie Sidhe

24 Monday Feb 2014

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Meredith NicEssus, Merry Gentry, Queen of the Sluagh and the Unseelie Sidhe

Meredith NicEssus is a faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable. She takes on the pseudonym “Merry Gentry” to hide from her family and her past while hiding out in Los Angeles. Merry, the only Sidhe (pronounced “shEE”) royal to be born on American soil, fearing the continuous assassination attempts on her life thinly disguised as duels, flees the Unseelie Court in a final act of self-preservation. Her glamour (the art of magical disguise through illusion) is nearly unrivaled at court, and she is able to pass herself off as a human with fey blood.
Merry’s name full name and title is Princess Meredith NicEssus, Child of Peace, Besaba’s Bane. “NicEssus” means, literally, “daughter of Essus”; it is the sort of name given to a child and laid aside once the child has come into his or her powers. That Merry used the name into her thirties is a sign that she is a late bloomer at best, a lesser sidhe at worst. After a child comes into their power, the last name is dropped. Later in the series it is revealed that Meredith is a fertility deity whose powers are of both courts.
As of the end of the second book in the series, Merry’s titles are Princess of Flesh and Blood; at the end of the 4th book, The Red And White Goddess is added to her title by demi-fey who gave her the title when her magic gave wings to wingless demi-fey.
The series chronicles the return of Meredith to the Unseelie Court by way of an invitation sent by her Aunt Andais, the Queen of Air and Darkness in the form of her right hand, Doyle, also known as Darkness. She is given men from the queen’s own guard, her Ravens, to guard her body and fill her bed as heir to the throne, provided she can conceive a child before her cousin. Later Merry adds to her collection of men first by taking the men offered to her by Queen Andais, as well as forming alliances with the Demi-fey and goblins.
Meredith formed her first alliance with Sholto, King of the Sluagh, when he is sent to Los Angeles to kill her. Merry has sex with Sholto. They are interrupted by Nerys The Gray, who attempts to kill Merry. Merry comes into her first hand of power (the Hand of Flesh), and uses her newly found hand of power on Nerys, who is a night hag. Nerys is immortal and cannot die, so Merry turns her into an inside-out ball of flesh.
The second alliance is formed between Merry and Kurag, King of the Goblins. This occurs when Merry is bled by the roses that line the entrance to the throne room of the Unseelie Court. She nearly passes out from blood loss and opens her eyes to see one of the goblins drinking from her open wound, (to goblins bodily fluids are sacred). She has the goblin detained and bargains with Kurag for a 6 month alliance in return for Merry taking a goblin (Kitto) into her bed. She deems this acceptable payment for the theft of her blood. Later Merry bargains for an extended alliance of 1 month for each sidhe-sided goblin that she brings into power. Also, Merry brings the Red Caps back to their full original power because she is the only Sidhe who possesses the full Hand of Blood.
The final alliance is struck between Merry and Queen Niceven (of the Demi-Fey). This is struck when Merry bargains for the cure to a curse that the Demi-Fey placed on Galen, one of Merry’s guards. She bargains with Niceven for a year alliance, during which the demi-fey will spy for Merry in exchange for weekly blood donations. Merry heals Nicca, one of her guards, who is a demi-fey born without wings. The wings that he should have been born with were now a supernatural tattoo on his back, created by Merry. Because of this, Queen Niceven sends to Meredith the Demi-Fey that were born without wings, in hopes that she will also heal them.

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Brad Pitt – Sholto

Sholto is the King of the Sluagh, one of the courts within the Unseelie Court as well as one of the Queen’s Ravens. Sholto is half sidhe and half nightflyer. While Sidhe are considered the most beautiful of the fey, nightflyers are considered the most horrific. Some consider Sholto a sign of the weakening blood of the sidhe, since prior to his birth sidhe genetics always triumphed no matter who or what the sidhe bred with. He is in essence however, the very embodiment of all that it means to be Unseelie. Sholto has tentacles growing from his stomach. A relatively young sidhe, Sholto is not above admitting when he is wrong. He was raised by Black Agnes, one of the nighthags of the Sluagh. Sholto also leads the Wild Hunt. King of the Sluagh, Lord of That Which Passes Between, Lord of Shadows, Unseelie Court
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Tyson Beckford – Doyle

Doyle is the Captain of the Queen’s Ravens , her assassin, and the acknowledged champion of the Unseelie Court. It is said that when he speaks the Queen’s words come out. His livery is a spider. Doyle is capable of traveling through mirrors as well as communicating through them. He is able to shapeshift into a Gabriel Ratchet (hellhound or hound of the hunt), a horse, and an eagle. He is able to bespell others with flickering lights in his eyes. Doyle is also known as the Bearer of the Painful Flame, a sickly greenish flame able to bring the true death to immortals. Doyle has been the Queen’s Darkness for over a thousand years, and though he loved her once his loyalties have shifted to Meredith.Later he becomes the king of Meredith Gentry. He is often referred to by Andais as “My Darkness”. Captain of the Queen’s Ravens, Bearer of the Painful Flame, Unseelie Court

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Frost – Ryan Gosling

Frost was never born, but he was made from hoar frost. At some point on the whim of a god he was made sidhe. Frost was once part of the Seelie Court , but having been created and not born sidhe, he was never good enough for the glittering throng. While the Seelie Court’s powers waned, his continued to grow as humans continued to remember and believe in Jack Frost. He then joined the Unseelie Court and has been Doyle’s second-in-command among the Queen’s Ravens. Frost was Andais’ consort over 800 years ago. The Killing Frost, Jack Frost

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Divergent

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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introducing Drizzt Do’Urden

15 Wednesday Jan 2014

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introducing Drizzt Do'Urden

Drizzt is the main character in a collection of 21 books by author R.A. Salvatore. Drizzt is an drow, a dark elf from Menzoberranzan. Born the night House Do’Urden destroyed House DeVir, the death of Nalfien Do’Urden saved Drizzt from being sacrificed to Lolth. After refusing to kill a Moon elf, Drizzt caused House Do’Urden to lose Lolth’s favor, resulting in Zaknafien being sacrificed. Drizzt escaped Menzoberranzen and became a wanderer for many years.

A perfectionist who yearned to be accepted into places and groups and to make friends widely, Drizzt was haunted by the danger he brought to those he befriended, thanks to the scrutiny of the clerics of Lolth and his other foes (notably the demon Errtu and the human assassin Artemis Entreri).

Drizzt is the famous violet-eyed drow ranger of Icewind Dale and Mithral Hall. Son of Malice, he was raised in Menzoberranzan and taught swordplay by his father Zaknafein. He rejected the cruel teachings of Lolth and the wicked drow of his home city and made his way to the surface world through the Underdark, befriending many along the way. His favored weapon is the scimitar, and he wields two magic blades at once in combat: Twinkle, a scimitar at home in starlight, and Icingdeath, a magically cold blade named for a white dragon he and his friend Wulfgar slew. His closest companion is Guenhwyvar, an extradimensional black panther he can summon to his side with a magic onyx figurine.

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Bruenor Battlehammer was the eighth and tenth king of Mithral Hall from 1356 DR – 1362 DR and 1370 DR – 1409 DR. He was the dwarven adoptive father of Catti-brie and Wulfgar, friend to Drizzt Do’Urden and Regis, crafter of Aegis-fang, and a member of the Companions of the Hall.45
Obould, also known as King Obould Many-Arrows, was an exarch of Gruumsh and the mortal orc king of the Broken Arrow tribe.
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Dahlia Sin’felle, originally known as Dahlia Syn’dalay, was a promising young elf in the service of Szass Tam, until she released a primordial hidden in the lost dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym.
Dahlia is a beautiful, tall, blue eyed elf with a head shaved clean but for a single braid of raven black and cardinal red locks, woven to run down the right side of her shapely head. She wears a set of diamonds in her left ear (one for each of the lovers she had killed) and a set of sparkling studs in her right (for lovers she had yet to kill). Like most Thayans of the day, she tattooed her head with blue and purple dye.
Dahlia carried a potent weapon known as Kozah’s Needle which could switch forms between an eight-foot staff, a flail, a tri-staff and a walking stick. Dahlia also carried the Cloak of the Crow, an enchanted cloak that turned the wearer into a giant crow, which she took after defeating Borlann, High Captain of Luskan. However, the cloak was later taken by Sylora Salm and recovered again by Dahlia after her and her companions Drizzt Do’Urden and Barrabus the Gray defeated Sylora Salm.51
Artemis Entreri is a ruthless assassin and the arch-nemesis of Drizzt Do’Urden. Portrayed as a cunning and tactical assassin, Entreri lives an empty life, devoid of any kind of pleasure, existing only to kill. Credited with being one of the best assassins in Faerûn, he is a highly composed and calculating man, with fighting skills rivaling those of his nemesis.
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Jarlaxle (born Jarlaxle Baenre) was a drow mercenary and leader of the Bregan D’aerthe mercenary company. He is (sometimes) an ally of House Baenre, although his band’s services were often available to the highest bidder or to whoever suits him. He was one of a small number of male drow who actually had significant power in a Lolth-worshiping city.59
Herzgo Alegni was a Shadovar tiefling warlord of the Netherese.
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Guenhwyvar is an astral panther, not native to the Material Plane. She is Drizzt Do’urden’s most trusted companion and protector. Guenhwyvar can be called for short periods of time via her figurine.
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House Baenre
The most powerful noble house in the city, House Baenre dominates its trade, politics, military (its forces are reputed to be able to match any other 5 nobles houses combined), and even the schools (with the heads of both Sorcere and Arach Tinilith members of the house).
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Errtu the Balor
Errtu is a balor, a true tanar’ri (chaotic evil demon).Second to the assassin Artemis Entreri and Obould Many-Arrows, Errtu is the greatest nemesis, most powerful and dangerous foe of the drow renegade, Drizzt Do’Urden, though Errtu has described himself as ‘he who hates Drizzt most’.
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Jaina Solo, Sword of the Jedi

05 Sunday Jan 2014

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Jaina Solo, Sword of the Jedi

The Sword of the Jedi was a title bestowed upon Jaina Solo during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy. Luke Skywalker, the Master of the Jedi Order and Jaina’s maternal uncle, gave his niece this name upon her knighting.

Jedi Master Skywalker referred to Jaina, during the initiation ceremony, as “…a burning brand to your enemies, a brilliant fire to your friends.”

However, not even Skywalker was entirely sure what being the Sword of the Jedi entailed. For the rest of the Yuuzhan Vong War and beyond Jaina struggled to understand what being the Sword of the Jedi meant, what she had to do to fulfill her destiny, and how it would affect her life.

The answer came during the Second Galactic Civil War when Jaina’s brother Jacen Solo fell to the dark side, becoming Darth Caedus and took over the Galactic Alliance. With Skywalker unable to face Caedus, for fear of falling to the dark side himself to avenge his wife, the burden fell to Jaina. Only after killing her brother, saving the galaxy from him but also changing everything between her and her family, did Jaina feel she had finally become the Sword she was meant to be.

It’s rumored that Jennifer Lawrence will be cast as Jaina in the upcoming Star Wars movies.

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Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

07 Sunday Jul 2013

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Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Probably my favorite true science fiction novel, about to be a major motion picture starring Harrison Ford as Ender’s mentor…mentor me as well please sir.

The story of “Ender’s Game” is set 70 years after a horrific alien war, and follows an unusually gifted child sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

quotes:
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not “true” because we’re hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. ”

“I don’t care if I pass your test, I don’t care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won’t let you beat me unfairly – I’ll beat you unfairly first.
– Ender ”

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along–the same person that I am today.”

“Ender Wiggin isn’t a killer. He just wins–thoroughly.”

disclaimer : The author, Orson Scott Card, is a homophobic asshole and nothing he wrote after Ender’s Game is worth a shit…but this first offering is awesome nevertheless.

Card makes no bones about his stance. In an essay in the Mormon Times, he writes that gay marriage “marks the end of democracy in America,” that homosexuality was a “tragic genetic mixup,” and that allowing courts to redefine marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual political rule and the classifying of anyone who disagreed as ‘mentally ill.'”

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Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

08 Thursday Nov 2012

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Oryx and Crake was really popular with the emo kids when emo was the thing….

goodreads.com:

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

Pigoons & Rakunks & Snats….dark & creepy & fatalistic…but one of my all-time favorites none the less…

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