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Articles by Pritpaul Bains
1975's Best Novel Edgar Winner
Join Jeremy Finley as he investigates this Vatican heist gone terribly wrong. Perhaps you know the sensation: that an inanimate object has somehow found you. That perfect-fitting, too soft-to-be-true t-shirt that was shoved on a sale rack with your favorite line from Star Wars or The Godfather or whatever you want emblazoned on the front.
Book Review: The Kremlin Strike by Dale Brown
The Kremlin Strike Dale Brown Brad McLanahan #5 May 7, 2019 Space is the battlefield in The Kremlin Strike by Dale Brown, the fifth book in the Brad McLanahan series, which shows that obtaining military superiority over Earth’s orbit could give a country frightening power. Political opinions aside, it’s hard to argue against the United States having a Space Force as an official branch of the military after reading Dale Brown’s The Kremlin Strike.
How John Scalzi’s Head On Envisions the Future of Esports
The smell of hot dogs and scuffed leather wafts into the bleachers once more on the crisp ballpark breeze. Inside the arenas, boards rattle and teeth skitter across the ice, tiny smears of pink on a long white sheet, as hockey playoffs begin. Rubber-soled sneakers squeak across the hardwood as the biggest personalities in the NBA face off for the ultimate prize.
Charting Charlize Theron’s Quiet, Steady Rise to SFF Stardom
Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron, is an adaptation of the excellent graphic novel The Coldest City, by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart. Along with its prequel, The Coldest Winter, it’s one of the best period espionage stories you’ll read. The movie, directed by David Leitch, is stylistically very different, but both versions of the story complement one another. Atomic Blonde also provides explosive, highly entertaining proof that action movies have finally begun to evolve again.
Beyond Happily Ever After: Divorce Should Be an Option in Fantasy Fiction
When divorce appears at all in fiction, it usually gets a bad rap. It breaks up families, causes tense arguments between couples, or traumatizes innocent children, like in Judy Blume’s It’s Not The End of The World. In historical or epic fantasy fiction, on the other hand, divorce seems to simply not exist. There are plenty of unhappy marriages, certainly, but the estranged couples either endure unhappily, murder each other, or flee in terror.
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: Mirror Dance, Chapters 1 and 2
Chapters 1 and 2 are really just barely dipping our toes into Mirror Dance. These opening chapters are simple—almost gentle. Nothing clearly bad has happened yet. Mark gets on the Ariel and no one gets tortured or dies. That’s it. We’re OK. Everyone is OK except Mark. This reread has an index, which you can consult if you feel like exploring previous books and chapters. Spoilers are welcome in the comments if they are relevant to the discussion at hand.
The Dark Tower Misses the Mark for Longtime Fans and Newcomers Alike
There are other worlds than these, pilgrim, and The Dark Tower movie tries to be the best of both, bringing Stephen King’s epic dark fantasy novel series to the broadest possible audience. But lots is lost in translation, and neither fans nor newbies to the material will find much to make them happy. Theresa DeLucci has only read the first two novels and Pritpaul Bains has read them all—so how differently did they both hate this movie?
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