The 5th Wave, Book 1
Published by Putnam Juvenile
Release Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: Cassie must question everything she knows about the invading alien force after she and her brother are separated, leaving Cassie to navigate a war-torn America to get him back.
Recommended: Yes. Kind of…
There’s no way to know for sure, but I bet the Others knew about the human aliens we’d imagined. And I bet they thought it was funny as hell. They must have laughed their asses off. If they have a …

Based on the novel A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Written by: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Ciarán Hinds, Willem Defoe
In Short: Not terrible.
Recommended: Not really.
JOHN CARTER: By God, I’m on Mars.
First of all, I have to ask myself this one important question. How do I expect to fairly review a movie that, months ago, totally failed Disney’s expectations and was pretty much ripped apart by every professional critic? To be quite honest, I …

Created by: Gene Roddenberry
Developed by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Starring: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Laura Bertram, Brent Stait, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Lexa Doig
Number of Episodes: 110 (5 Seasons)
In Syndication
In Short: An uptight starship captain finds himself three hundred years in the future in an anarchist galaxy he barely recognizes.
Recommended: Yes.
TYR: We’ve got two options. One, frontal assault.
DYLAN: And two?
TYR: Sprout wings. Turn ourselves invisible with a pocketful of pixie dust, and fly inside.
– “Una Salus Victus” (02.07)
Not many writers are accorded the name-apostrophe-s before the …

2011
Published by: Pan MacMillan (UK)/Del Rey Books (US)
Available in Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle editions
In Short: On a distant and nearly inaccessible alien world, a newly-arrived Ambassador could destroy the fragile balance between the human colonists and their incredibly alien “Hosts.”
Recommended: Yes, but…
“Once I had heard a theory. It was an attempt to make sense of the fact that no matter how travelled people are, no matter how cosmopolitan, how biotically miscegenated their homes, they can’t be insouciant at the first sight of any exot[ic] race. The theory is that …

K-PAX, Book 1
1995
Published by St Martin’s Press
Available in Paperback and Audio CD editions
In Short: prot is an alien from the planet K-PAX. Or is he?
Recommended: Hell, yes.
“Now, Mr.—excuse me—prot: Do you know why you are here?”
“Of course. you think I’m crazy.”
“I prefer to use the term ‘ill’. Do you think you are ill?”
“A little homesick, perhaps.”
“And where is ‘home’?”
“K-PAX.”
“Kaypacks?”
“Kah-hyphen-pee-ay-ex. K-PAX.”
“With a capital kay?”
“It is all capitals.”
“Oh. K-PAX. Is that an island?”
– Dr. Gene Brewer and prot
This, …

Written by: Etan Cohen (Yes: Etan.)
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlberg
US Release Date: Friday, May 25, 2012
In Short: Jay has to stop an alien invasion and save his partner’s life by falling back in time. Hilarity, action and awkwardness ensues.
Recommended: Yes. If you liked the first’s quirkiness you’ll be happy with this one.
ANDY WARHOL: Who’s that guy? Okay, don’t tell me he’s your new partner.
YOUNG AGENT K: Actually, he’s my old partner. He travelled back from the future to save the …

Written By: Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Guy Pearce
US Release Date: Friday, June 8th, 2012
In Short: An intergalactic pursuit of man’s origins goes terribly, terribly wrong.
Recommended: Hell, yes!
DAVID: Big things have small beginnings!
In a way, Prometheus is the product of two movies. On one hand, it’s a basic horror movie that borrows heavily from almost any other movie in the Alien franchise, which director Ridley Scott helped pioneer way back when. On the other hand, it surrounds …

Written By: Mark Verheiden
Directed By: Greg Beeman
US Airdate: Sunday, June 17th, 2012
TNT
In Short: Tom Mason goes onboard a “Skitter Ship”, while tension and uncertainty flares up amongst the rest of the survivors.
Recommended: No?!
TOM: What does that make you?
ALIEN: The ones that will decide if you live or die!
Note: This episode is hour one of the two hour season premiere for Season 2.
If there was ever a way to succinctly define the problem that Falling Skies has, it’s that it knows the problems that it needs to fix, even as it seems …

Written By: Bradley Thompson and David Weddle
Directed By: Greg Beeman
US Airdate: Sunday, June 17th, 2012
TNT
In Short: The resistance fighters try to gain a tactical advantage, while something in Tom Mason’s eyeball (no, really) threatens to create total chaos amongst the group.
Recommended: Hell, yes!
TOM: If all you have is hate, then they’ve already changed you.
Note: This is part two of the two hour season premiere for Season 2.
This episode manages one of the greatest achievements that can ever be accomplished in a TV episode. It takes dull plot material, and manages …

Why The Top 13?
Sure, there’s Saturn 3, Babylon 5, Blake’s 7 and District 9. But what number could be geekier than 13? Not only is there its inherent creepiness, but there’s also The 13th Immortal, The 13th Warrior and The 13th Floor. There’s spooky gore-fest Friday the 13th and those plucky, kick-ass comic book kids, Gen13. There’s Warehouse 13, The X-Files’ oft-referenced 1013, and the 13 tribes of Kobol. Plus, the Munsters lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. So, we at Geek Speak Magazine bring you the Top 13 of… well, whatever strikes our fancy.
Just be glad we didn’t elect to go …