#sci-fi summer

[illbedancingwithmyself]

I’m losing my mind over how readable and how fucking good Octavia Butler’s writing is

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“Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home…” 

[fatswimmies]

roswell. we about to queue up in this bitch.

[midmanhattanlib]

Teleportation. Precognition. Suspended Animation. Dark Matter. Fringe.

This week's Sci-Fi Summer TV blog talks about Fringe. In this clip, watch as an evil nurse (really a shapeshifter from a parallel world) tries to kill Olivia Dunham. Obviously, she needs a better bedside manner.

[midmanhattanlib]

Anna is just reminding you to check out the latest New York Public Library blog post on The Fifth Column Lives! V!

"We are of peace. Always."