How CBS’s sleeper hit, now about to enter its second season, gives us a hero for the Big Brother age.
by Geonn Cannon
FINCH: You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like you. Crimes the government considered “irrelevant.” They wouldn’t act, so I decided I would. But I needed a partner, someone with …

Based on the comic strip created by Carlos Ezquerraa and John Wagner
Written by: Alex Garland
Directed by: Pete Travis
Starring: Carl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Wood Harris
US Release Date: Friday, September 21, 2012
In Short: Judge Dredd, dispensing justice one body at a time.
Recommended: Hell, yes!
DREDD: Ma-Ma is not the law. I am the law.
I feel a weird sort of shame to confess to you that I did not see this movie in 3D. For this reason I really wish they’d stop including the visual format in the title of these …

Story by: Hans Bauer and Randall McCormick
Written by: Ben Edlund, John August and Joss Whedon
Directed by: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
Starring: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo
In Short: A very underrated animated sci-fi classic. Plus, funny!
Recommended: Yes!!
GUNE: [holding up a small device] Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I. I made it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used Gindrogac. Highly unstable.
PREED: Gune…
GUNE: I put at button on it. Yes, I wish to press it, …

Written by: Eric Kripke
Directed by: Jon Favreau
US Airdate: Monday, September 17, 2012
In Short: Over a decade after the world’s power goes out, young Charlie and her companions have to travel to Chicago to try and track down her brother, kidnapped by militia.
Recommended: Yes!
AARON: 80 million dollars in the bank and I would trade it all, right now, for a roll of Charmin.
We see it with every new TV season, the big budget sci-fi bonanza that gets more hype than any other new show joining the schedule for the fall season. …

Published by Tu Books
Release Date: Monday, October 15, 2012
Available in Hardcover
In Short: An excellent short story collection about different, yet grim dystopian futures.
Recommended: Yes.
“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”
– John F. Kennedy
The above quote is the epigraph to the short story anthology Diverse Energies edited by Tobias Buckwell and Joe Monti. The collection contains eleven short stories in the science fiction genre. They are all …

Between Trek and Wars lies a vast and disturbing gulf of depressing cinematic endeavor… sometimes even in a good way.�
by Chris Nagy
The original Star Trek series premiered in 1966, and had pretty much run its course by early 1969. Then, in 1977, Star Wars hit theaters. We remember these two milestones (and have probably listened to, or participated in, at least one debate regarding the relative merits of each), but there was an entire decade of science fiction in between that is less often considered.
A common theme of sci-fi films …

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, …

Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins
Written by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray
Directed by Gary Ross
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Wes Bentley, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Donald Sutherland
US Release Date: Friday, March 23, 2012
In Short: Teenagers fight to the death in order to affirm the government’s power. There’s a social commentary in there somewhere.
Recommended: Yes. I also recommend reading the book first.
HAYMITCH: Accept the probability of your imminent death and know, in your heart, there is nothing I can do to save you.
The Hunger …

The Hunger Games, Book 1
Published by Scholastic Press
Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Audio editions
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In the Stacks: Back from the Dead
In Short: Dystopian kids battle to the death. Like you didn’t already know.
Recommended: Hell, yes.
“It’s not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other’s survival means our own death.”
– Katniss Everdeen
Oh no! It’s another review of The Hunger Games – head for the hills! Oh wait, we’re in an arena where we have to kill everything …