Before we start with this overview/review of Disney+’s new and “first” Star Wars live-action series, I’d like to mention I might mention spoilers going forward. You’ve been warned. You may have noticed first in quotes. There have been Christmas specials on TV, so that’s why. With that out of the way, The Mandalorian is the real live-action series with an actual budget behind it. I believe 10 million per episode, and it shows. The production values are out of this world for a

Photo by Christian Fregnan Yesterday, it struck me that I was due to write an article to be posted on the Sci-Fi Reads blog today. Yet, I had a problem: it was the day after the 20Booksto50k indie author conference in Las Vegas, and I was busy hanging out with fellow sci-fi author and Sci-Fi Reads founder Christian Kallias. We had other things to do, things that left no time for blogging – things like seeing the Joker at the Orleans casino theater, and blowing past our gambli

Watching Star Trek: Discovery is like going to the casino, you’re hoping the next season is a winner, but there’s always that pit in your stomach. With Season 3 scheduled to come out sometime in 2020, I was excited to see the first trailer, only to have the pit return once I watched it. In contrast, Star Trek: Picard is scheduled to be released January 24, 2020, and I have no doubt that it will be amazing. It’s Sir Patrick Stewart after all, a master of his craft and arguably