Movie Picks: Sugar, Moon, Bright Star
Sugar This heartfelt film by the writers of Half Nelson realistically follows the life of a minor league baseball player from the Dominican Republic. With a stunning lead performance and an unexpected...
View ArticleBook review: Two Philip K. Dick classics on CD
Man In the High Castle By Philip K Dick Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) By Philip K. Dick With the success of his recent novel Chronic City Jonathan Lethem seems everywhere these...
View ArticleScience Fiction: Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of SF which features a mash-up of high technology and underground culture. The “cyber” is derived from cybernetics, nominally the study of control and communications in...
View ArticleSuggestions for Life after Lost
I am freaking out at the impending end to my beloved TV show Lost. What could possibly take its place??? Books?? (Just kidding, a little library humor thrown in for free.) If you’re in the “so sad...
View ArticleDVD review: Gentlemen Broncos
Gentlemen Broncos Fifteen year old Benjamin (Michael Angarano) is an aspiring SF writer whose manuscript is ripped off by Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) his aging literary hero. Getting his manuscript...
View ArticleBook review: For the Win
For the Win by Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow is a populist tech guru and co-editor of popular culture blog BoingBoing. He is also internationally recognized copyright scholar but he claims his first...
View ArticleLegends of Film: Stuart Gordon interview
Just in time for Halloween, Bill brings us an interview with director Stuart Gordon. Mr. Gordon has directed Re- Animator, From Beyond, Dagon, and Space Truckers. Mr. Gordon has seen it all while on...
View ArticleBook review: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick Iconic science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, PKD to non-noobs, had a series of religious, or psychotic, or neuro-farting episodes during months of...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast January 2012
Special thanks to Adam Deane for the rad new theme song. The crew gives our unprofessional opinion on ebooks and ereaders. Tickling our fancy is (surprise, surprise) other book-themed podcasts,...
View ArticleIn Memorium: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury was the homey wizard of American science fiction. Most often associated with SF in public consciousness, he also dedicated much of his working life to poetry and drama. Before his death at...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast July 2012: The Girl with the Alien in Her Womb
Did Prometheus leave you too scared and confused to leave your house? We dissect the movie and provide you with a plethora of other alien themed SF titles for you to check out. We end with what is...
View ArticleBook review: Divergent
Divergent by Veronica Roth Needing a Hunger Games itch scratched? This newish young adult series by Veronica Roth can help! Set in a future Chicago, Divergent is the first in a dystopian trilogy...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast December 2012: The Year’s Most Awesome
Best of the year show! Ours’ is superior in that you get our favorites from the library. Because we are human, we mention some things we absorbed in 2012 but were not necessarily released in 2012. We...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast June 2013: Digital Treasure Troves
On this episode, we’ll introduce you to the Digital Public Library of America, and a lot of other websites where you can find great stuff. There were so many sites we couldn’t fit them all in the...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast January 2014: The Best of (Last) Year
This is the best of the year. If you listen the whole way to the end, there is a whole other mini-episode hidden inside. Hunger Awareness Month BOOKS Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Circle by Dave...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast February 2014: Groundhog Day – African American History...
Just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, we’re caught in a time loop. We tell you about the best books, movies and music to read / watch / listen to over and over again. Tell us your favorites in the...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast August 27th, 2014: Dog Days
The dog days of summer are hot. Hot like four nerds sitting in a room talking about books. We tell you about the hottest books, movies and music. Things keep sizzling in the tickle my fancy segment....
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast November 12th, 2014: Space Cadets
If Interstellar and Guardians of the Galaxy are any indication, then Sun Ra is correct: space is the place. We go far beyond our world. Bring an oxygen tank. Refreshingly, there is very little Star...
View ArticleBook review: Southern Reach Trilogy
Area X (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff Vandermeer Earlier this year everyone was talking about HBO’s True Detective. The thing that really caught me about the show was that it seemed to take a...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast January 14, 2014: HACKERS
Cyber warfare is now mainstream news, but some of the Popmatic crew had a very bibliophile interpretation of word “hack.” In short, they hacked the hackers episode. HACKERS the works of William Gibson...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast February 25th, 2015: Salute Your Sci Fi Shorts
February is the shortest month so we were going to talk about short things, but, appropriately enough, we were short staffed due to #SnObama aka the 2015 President’s Day ice storm. With only Bryan,...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast for March 11th, 2015: A Robot By Any Other Name
Hollywood is banking on robots. So is this episode. Plus what is tickling our fancy this week. ROBOTS Cybermen in Doctor Who: 1-4 The Doctors Revisited Forbidden Planet Cult Movies: the Classics, the...
View ArticleBook List: Dreaming of Dystopia
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi In America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring...
View ArticleBook Review: Dead Space: Martyr
Dead Space: Martyr By Brian Evenson The Earth is dying, the human race is circling down the drain, and something has been found in the Chicxulub crater, under the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. This...
View ArticleBook Review: Two new reads in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction By Judd Trichter In the not-so-distant future, pollution is out of control. The streets are crowded. Drugs,...
View ArticleBook List: My Dad’s Top Five
My father is where I get my love of science fiction and fantasy. I grew up around Robert Heinlein and Marion Zimmer Bradley (I was even named after one of her books!). Both of my parents encouraged me...
View ArticleTrust No One: The X-Files Returns!
Scully and Mulder are returning to primetime and there’s only one month to catch up on all things X-Files! Don’t panic – the library can help. Get the facts: The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide...
View ArticlePopmatic Podcast for January 20, 2016: The Truth is Out There
X-Files is returning so we get extraterrestrial. Amanda and Bryan talk about things relatively popular. Bill and Mike go deep nerd. Listen to the very end for X-Files talk and the most important...
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