Week in Geek Episode 5

Week in Geek, episode 5, recorded 9/23/17. News since last recording, including: Doctor Who news regarding previous Doctors; the Emmys and shows we haven’t watched; Good Omens pictures of the leads in costume; HBO is making a Watchmen series; they’re sadly making an Iron Fist season 2; It now the highest grossing horror film of all time; and Gal Gadot confirmed for the Flashpoint-based Flash “solo” film. Spoilers for Flashpoint!

Here’s a link to the picture from the set of Good Omens: https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/909698756223913984

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Music is by Scott Gratton: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Gratton/Intros_and_Outros

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Geek 501 Science Fiction / Fantasy

There was a great article on iO9 talking about entry level science fiction and fantasy books. They got a lot of people to give their ideas for great books to introduce someone to science fiction and / or fantasy. I felt bad because there were a lot of books that I had actually never read. At the same time there were a good number that I had read. It was definitely an interesting list of a wide variety of books. The ideas came from authors, publishers, and more, but here are a few books that I think are a great introduction to science fiction and fantasy.

Some of the idea is that science fiction and fantasy can sometimes be so epic and many of the books are such small parts of a larger whole it can be difficult to want to enter in to a potentially large commitment. The books that I think would work well either are single stories or stand on their own enough that they do not further books to get the whole story.