SparkLife posts by paul kirsch

Like many gamers, I was hypnotized by the advertising campaign and gameplay videos of Bioshock: Infinite. There were promises of adventure and intrigue in a ...

The alphabet is tedious and boring as it stands,
So we've rewritten it here for you Harry Potter fans.
Don't think that we're braggarts or trying to ...

Kids have been making the argument that video games are "good for you" because they develop good hand/eye coordination since the days of the arcade. ...

Science fiction has a reputation of working in extremes. The stakes are higher, the explosions hotter, the aliens scarier. A happy side effect of this ...

Some time ago, Sparkitor Josh Perilo aired his grievances with the genre of Steampunk in this here article. So, our esteemed contributor Paul Kirsch decided ...

This just in: Earth has started to receive television broadcasts from deep space. Lest anyone set their DVR to record the latest Ganymede Shore or ...

An author of science fiction or fantasy has one difficult decision to make before they set their fingers on a keyboard: How much does my ...

Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan locked in my engagement to a degree that I can only describe as Downton Abbey-esque. When I read the first book, there ...

Few things are more enthralling than a good series.

I started exploring Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan and, like a transfixed moth, had to keep moving forward to ...

Though it has some quality characters and a thought-provoking title, The Drowned Cities falls short of answering the one question that made me ...