Tag: Science Fiction
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 3]
[Part One available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/12/short-story-icarus-nine-part-1/] [Part Two available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/30/short-story-icarus-nine-part-two/] “Spectra Vestal,” Granté echoed. “Holy shit.” Hiss made a savage grinding noise that probably stood in for an expletive. Lady Spectra snickered. “Pleased to meet you, too.” Granté’s head swam. “What are we doing, Cap?” Paola blinked. “Uh.” Whatever it is, make it soon, Hiss…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 2]
[Part One available at: https://scrubreport.com/2026/07/12/short-story-icarus-nine-part-1/] Stationmaster Polk steepled his chrome-plated fingers. “The way you say that would make me suspicious, if I didn’t know how much of a nervous wreck your ship is.” “Oh, right,” Paola smiled disarmingly. “You’ve met before.” “Really, though…what’s with the light haul?” Polk’s eyes were dark wet slits in split…
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Short Story – “Icarus-Nine” [Part 1]
The Pequod limped through the void, thrusters firing intermittently like a baby hiccupping blue flame into the dark. The crew, clustered on the bridge, winced in unison with every burp of fuel and tried to distract themselves with the news. The ICOMM newsfeed was cluttered with talk about a girl from House Vestal gone walkabout…
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Short Story: “One Last Catch”
Crab season had been over for eight solar days, but the Pequod cracked the asteroid anyway. The thing was sitting right there, all fat and juicy and full of karkinoi, and a catch was a catch. The Pequod’s take had been lousy the back half of the season, and the only cargo kicking around the…
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Quick Thoughts: The Demise of the Halo TV Show
Oh, Master Cheeks, we barely knew ye. The Halo TV show has been cancelled by Paramount after two seasons (although I’ve seen articles saying that the studio intends to shop the show around to other networks). I know that I and pretty much everybody else on the internet were lining up to take steaming dumps…
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Review: Fallout (Prime Video)
I was going to make some half-assed reference to war never changing, but you know it does: the quote is just cool. Fallout (the show) represents a change from Fallout (the games), after all – the forms of media their stories are presented in are inherently different. Does the transition from choice-driven, open ended role-playing…
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Review: Halo, Season 2
This is Going to Hurt… You might be wondering why, exactly, I subjected myself to another eight episodes of this “adaptation” when I so disliked the previous season. Reader, I must confess to feeling the same way myself on more than one occasion…but I soldiered on, because you deserve it, and also because I wanted…
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Review: The Mandalorian, Season 3, Eps. 6-8 (Disney+)
Let’s call a spade a spade: this season of Mando was more uneven than my heart rate, and the last three episodes really exemplified a lot of the problems I had with this season as a whole. I put off writing this review because, honestly, I just didn’t find the end of the season…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 7-10
In my relatively short tenure as proprietor of a reviews-oriented site, I’ve come to realize that it’s much, much easier to write about things that I don’t like than it is to crank out ~1000 words on something I actually enjoyed. The episodes comprising Andor’s last arc make for a hard review in the best…