Ten's List with Author Susan Bigelow!

Tens List 

with author of Broken

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Susan J. Bigelow

  

What are your top 10 

favorite Science Fiction movies?

1. Contact – My all-time favorite, and one of the more underrated science fiction movies out there. I cry at the end. I dare you not to. “Poetry! They should have sent a poet.”

2. Star Wars (the original trilogy) – And what did I watch again and again as a kid, whenever I could? What did I make my mom get for me from the video store over and over until their tape wore out? That's right. Star Wars. I could probably recite it from memory.

3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki, and this post-apocalyptic film is one of my favorites of his.

4. Dark City – What a great concept, meshing science fiction with a gritty film noir setting. “Shut it down!”

5. Star Trek: First Contact – I love the Next Generation cast more than any other, and this is their only good movie. The Borg Queen is a bit much, but it has some cool Captain Picard moments and a totally sloshed Counselor Troi.

6. Spaceballs – My sister and I loved this movie to death when we were young, and I still love it now. Mel Brooks meets science fiction, it's brilliantly funny.

7. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – I always liked this one best of all the Trek movies, because it's great fun to see how bewildered they all were by the 1980s. As we get farther away from that time, I empathize with them more. There's a punk on a city bus with a boom box! How quaint.

8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence – I don't care what the reviews say, I still like this movie. There are many images that stick with me from it, including the half-drowned city and the creepy, yet oddly comforting talking teddy bear.

9. Dune – Yes, Dune. That Dune, the one with Patrick Stewart and The spice must floooow. It's a wonderfully terrible movie.

10. Galaxy Quest – If you love Star Trek as much as I do, you'll love this hilarious satire of it.

Read my review of Broken here. 

Check out Susan's blog here. 

Broken by Susan J. Bigelow [Review]

Title: Broken
Author: Susan J Bigelow
Genre: Dystopian
Release: January 22, 2011
Format: Kindle Edition
Publisher: Candlemark&Gleam
ASIN: B004KABAXM
My Copy: Author
Reviewer: Rex

3 out of 5 Robots!

   

About the Book:

Can a shattered superhero help save humanity's hope for a better world?

Broken figured she was done with heroics when she lost the ability to fly and fled the confinement of the Extrahuman Union. But then the world started to fall apart around her, and the mysterious Michael Forward entered her life, dangling the possibility of redemption and rebirth.

Michael Forward can see the future, but all he wants is to escape the destiny he has struggled against all his life. When the moment comes, though, he finds he can't refuse. Now he needs the help of a homeless ex-superhero to save a baby who may be the key to humanity's freedom.

In a time of spreading darkness, when paranoia and oppression have overtaken the world, can unlikely allies preserve a small ray of hope for a better, brighter future?

Quickie Review:

Broken is dark and fun- a pleasant surprise! I went into this book without knowing anything about it, if I would have read more into it, I may not have picked it up. But I'm glad I did, it is fantastic and fast paced.

Broken, our morose ex-superhero, is an incredibly well written character, engaging. Actually, I found all of the characters engaging, well thought out and likable. 

I'm a huge fan of superhero movies, they're my favorite movie genre... why I have never read a superhero book is beyond me. I'm so happy I read this book, it was so much different than anything I've read recently and I really enjoyed myself. It is a fabulous debut by Bigelow, and I definitely won't hesitate to pick up her work in the future!

If you're in the mood for a great dystopian superhero novel that doesn't follow the typical young adult formula, pick this one up.

 

Other reviews of Broken by Susan Bigelow:
Between the Covers   Girls in the Stacks   TDF