A review by Nalini Haynes Melisande Stokes is a linguist at Harvard, enticed away from academic life by Tristan Lyons, a mysterious man claiming to …
Speculative fiction
Kong: Skull Island
A review by Nalini Haynes A US soldier and a Japanese fighter crash on Wonder Woman’s island. There can’t be two islands that look the …
Logan (2017)
A review by Nalini Haynes Logan (Hugh Jackman) is back. Again. At least this time he wasn’t in a remake of his own origin story. …
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
A review by Nalini Haynes Etcetera and Seth attend a Communist Party: an event where a lot of people gather at a disused factory, get …
Danger Mouse (2015)
A review by Nalini Haynes A long time ago in the time of the dinosaurs, Danger Mouse and Penfold (two actual albeit cartoon mice) saved …
Arrival (2016)
A review by Nalini Haynes Arrival is a science fiction movie where alien ships that look like rocks you’d skip over a lake come to …
Travelers season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Travelers is yet another made-for-television time travel story. Although far from the first in its genre in the past few …
The Albino Redwoods by Heather Nelson
A review by Nalini Haynes Joey is a Caucasian girl living in a world where albinos (never ‘persons with albinism’) rule. Society is segregated into …
Daughter of Blood by Helen Lowe
A review by Nalini Haynes Daughter of Blood is book 3 in Lowe’s Wall of Night quartet, an award-winning epic fantasy science fiction series set …
The Refugees (TV series)
A review by Nalini Haynes The Refugees is a science fiction TV series about people from the future transporting themselves into the present “because we …
Trepalium season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Trepalium is a short TV season from France with English subtitles, set in a 1984-style dystopian France where a wall …
Supergirl season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Kara (Melissa Benoist) flees her home planet of Krypton in a space ship minutes after her cousin was launched, heading …
Rogue One (2016)
A review by Nalini Haynes Rogue One is the latest Star Wars movie but this one is set just before A New Hope (1977), the …
Girl In Time by John Birmingham
A review by Nalini Haynes Cady lives in an alternate reality where Hillary Clinton won the election. (I suspect Birmo expected her to win but, …
Legends of Tomorrow season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes DC’s minor superheroes are the Legends of Tomorrow, men and women whose contribution to history is negligible, are recruited by …