Josh Roseman

“Smile Time”, or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust in Whedon”

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:53:21 -0400

“Smile Time”, or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust in Whedon”:

“Oh crap… it’s the puppet episode.” Indeed. Read about how I changed my tune by clicking here.

Book Review: “Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion”

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:16:30 -0400

Book Review: “Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion”:

My review of Joss Whedon: the Complete Companion, a compendium of articles and essays on all of Whedon’s creations (and I mean all), is now on Escape Pod. Read it here.

Soundproof Digest 1

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:07:30 -0400

Soundproof Digest 1:

Several of my articles from January, February, and March are reprinted in Soundproof Digest #1. If you want to read them on your e-reading device, you can download ePub, PDF, or Mobi versions here.

Oh, and there’s a bunch of good stories in there too.

How Bad Technobabble Hurt A Good Episode: “Our Man Bashir”

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:50:21 -0400

How Bad Technobabble Hurt A Good Episode: “Our Man Bashir”:

My “review” of the Deep Space Nine episode “Our Man Bashir” is now up on Escape Pod. Read it here.

"What do you do after your 1986 movie achieves cult status? Well, if you’re lucky, you get to make a..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:42:07 -0400

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What do you do after your 1986 movie achieves cult status? Well, if you’re lucky, you get to make a sequel. When that sequel bombs, you get to make another sequel. If the third film bombs, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to get your intellectual property turned into a TV series that gets passable ratings and hangs around for six years — long enough to justify a fourth film in the series.

In other words… someone made Highlander: Endgame, the fourth movie in the series. And I watched it. More than once.

”

- From my review of Highlander: Endgame on Escape Pod.

Journey #34 - When The Black Bird Circles Back by Greg van Eekhout

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:42:21 -0400

Journey #34 - When The Black Bird Circles Back by Greg van Eekhout:

I’m playing Mr. Cragg in “When the Black Bird Circles Back” by Greg van Eekhout. Listen here.

StarShipSofa No 235

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:54:00 -0400

StarShipSofa No 235:

I’m reading David Carani’s “The Paradise Aperture” in this week’s StarShipSofa. The story is in this year’s Writers Of The Future anthology as well.

Click here to hear it.

Film Review: Highlander III: The Sorcerer

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:45:24 -0400

Film Review: Highlander III: The Sorcerer:

My review of Highlander 3 is up at Escape Pod.

Drabblecast 240 – Trifecta XXI

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:48:52 -0400

Drabblecast 240 – Trifecta XXI:

This week on the Drabblecast, I’m narrating “Divorce in the House of Flies” by Dustin Reade. Click here to put it in your ears.

"As of this writing, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has made her the best-selling Kindle..."

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:37:38 -0400

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As of this writing, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has made her the best-selling Kindle author of all time. That’s quite an accomplishment. But even before that happened, it was inevitable that the Hunger Games phenomenon would become a film. After all, with the end of both Harry Potter and Twilight on the horizon, studios were looking for their next big book-to-movie hit.

Well, they found it, and on March 23, The Hunger Games was released to American audiences.

”

- My review of The Hunger Games is now up on Escape Pod.

"Greener" in Asimov's

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:43:17 -0400

"Greener" in Asimov's:

My short-story “Greener”, which I’m very proud of, is in the April/May 2012 issue of Asimov’s. Click here to put it in your eyeballs.

Journey #31 - The Funeral by Christopher Munroe

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:17:40 -0400

Journey #31 - The Funeral by Christopher Munroe:

I am performing “The Funeral”, by Christopher Munroe, in Issue 31 of “Journey Into”.

"About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about how fast data storage technology is expanding. My..."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:29:07 -0400

“About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about how fast data storage technology is expanding. My example was my USB drive, which holds eight hundred times as much data in something the size of my finger than my very first hard drive, which was about the size of half a frozen dinner.”

- My article The Speed of Sci-Fi, Revisited is now up on Escape Pod.

"I vaguely remember seeing Return to Oz in theaters as a child and deciding that the movie was good,..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:26:00 -0400

“I vaguely remember seeing Return to Oz in theaters as a child and deciding that the movie was good, but scary. As an adult, I’m quite surprised at how creepy and disturbing the film’s imagery was. In Oz alone, we have the insane behavior of the Wheelers, the mirror-palace where Mombi resides, and even the Gump, who should’ve quit while he was a head.”

- My review of Return to Oz is up at Escape Pod.

EP336: The Speed of Time

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:41:50 -0400

EP336: The Speed of Time:

I’m reading “The Speed of Time” by Jay Lake over at Escape Pod.

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 3 of 3)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:35:32 -0400

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 3 of 3):

My 15th anniversary Buffy retrospective ends with my top ten episodes. I bet you can guess which one is on top.

It’s Called Metafiction

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:28:37 -0400

It’s Called Metafiction:

see more Meme Animals

Please… please… PLEASE… don’t ever do this.

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 2 of 3)

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:11:08 -0400

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 2 of 3):

No retrospective of a beloved television show would be complete without a countdown, so here’s the first part of my top 25 episodes.

"I know, you want to be Joss Whedon so bad it hurts. (And, quite possibly, it’ll hurt your..."

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:45:30 -0400

“I know, you want to be Joss Whedon so bad it hurts. (And, quite possibly, it’ll hurt your readers, too.)”

- How Not to Be a Clever Writer

I’d like to think that I don’t try too hard to be Joss Whedon, but sometimes you just have to do it.

"I really liked the Buffy series, and “Once More, With Feeling” was a really good episode — on..."

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:58:44 -0400

“I really liked the Buffy series, and “Once More, With Feeling” was a really good episode — on Facebook, my friend Dave said, “to this day I consider this to be the greatest single episode of a series I’ve ever seen”.”

- From my review of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Once More, With Feeling” episode soundtrack, over at Escape Pod.