‘Future’s Edge’ by Gareth L. Powell: A Book Review
‘Future’s Edge,’ a new standalone novel by Gareth L Powell, is a perfect introduction to the work of one of the UK’s finest Sci-Fi authors.
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GeekMom: Use The Force (and the Force of Nature) With GraviTrax This Year!
GraviTrax keeps coming out with new sets that are both fun and engaging for a wide audience. Two recent sets pull in Star Wars (original trilogy) fans and nature- and animal-loving kids. Check them out below. GraviTrax Junior: My Planet Starter Set The GraviTrax Junior set is so cute, so adorable, and so fun. […]
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GeekMom: GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Games
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the GeekHouse, everyone was playing their favorite game. It will be a little while before the 2024 GeekDad Game of the Year is announced so, in the meantime, here’s a selection of some of our current favorite games to share with your friends and family this holiday […]
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GeekMom: See Dragon Con Fandom Tracks Change From 1997-2024
As a longtime Dragon Con attendee now measuring my time there in decades, I’m at least as fascinated by the culture surrounding the event as I am any given year’s panels or biggest costumes. I’ve written about aspects of it in the past (including its habit of forming “cults”), but this year I’m bringing you […]
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GeekMom: 7 Reasons You Should Be Watching ‘Agatha All Along’
A few years ago, when WandaVision first dropped, I wasn’t sure what it was going to be about, but it was a Marvel show and I decided to give it the benefit of a few episodes. I still remember the slow reveal of something larger going on, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that WandaVision […]
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GeekMom: A Thank You and Goodbye to ‘The Grand Tour’
In 2002, Jeremy Clarkson helped usher in the age of Top Gear when the first episode aired on December 29. The following year, the lineup of Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May was in place… and the car programming world would never be the same. After 22 years of driving each other crazy (no pun […]
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GeekMom: Potts Creates Online Campaign for His First Indie Feature Film
Two years ago, I wrote a post celebrating the DIY spirit of independent filmmaking by taking a look at the forthcoming debut feature-length project, Firecracker, from actor and director Andrew Lee Potts’ Keychain Productions in co-production with Empire Studios. The film, set on Bonfire Night in the U.K., is about the aftermath of a heist […]
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The Kermit Connection: Music Inspired by Muppets
This week, one of the most influential actors and musicians on the planet turned 69: Kermit the Frog. Jim Henson created Kermit’s earliest “prototype” in 1955 for the show called Sam and Friends, and throughout his rising stardom, Henson himself performed the voice of Kermit until his death in 1990. Today, it is hard to […]
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How Zoe Saldana Teaches Empathy With Nintendo
Being a mom is hard. Being a mom trying to raise a son who can overcome toxic masculinity is harder. If you ask movie star Zoe Saldana, she’ll remind you that “for many centuries, the domestic role for a woman was never even acknowledged as labor. When, in reality, it is the most important role […]
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GeekMom: The Kermit Connection: Music Inspired by Muppets
This week, one of the most influential actors and musicians on the planet turned 69: Kermit the Frog. Jim Henson created Kermit’s earliest “prototype” in 1955 for the show called Sam and Friends, and throughout his rising stardom, Henson himself performed the voice of Kermit until his death in 1990. Today, it is hard to […]
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GeekMom: How Zoe Saldana Teaches Empathy With Nintendo
Being a mom is hard. Being a mom trying to raise a son who can overcome toxic masculinity is harder. If you ask movie star Zoe Saldana, she’ll remind you that “for many centuries, the domestic role for a woman was never even acknowledged as labor. When, in reality, it is the most important role […]
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GeekMom: ‘Start Here RPG’ Is Perfect for New TTRPG Players
Many of us geeks love our tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder, and we often love recruiting new people to play with us whether it be friends, family, or our own kids. The thing is, these games take quite a bit to learn and master to the point where they can be really overwhelming […]
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GeekMom: From Becoming to Being: ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ Season 2
Every superhero struggles with the concept of identity. As readers and viewers, we connect with these stories because we have struggled to understand our place in the world and how we fit into the larger puzzle of humanity. As teenagers, we struggled to form our identities, either joining, drifting between, or feeling isolated from social […]
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GeekMom: Diapers and Danger in ‘The Family Plan’
Movie: The Family Plan PG-13 Action/Comedy Streaming on Apple TV+ Featured Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Michele Monaghan, Maggie Q The Family Plan, an Apple original film, is a fresh take on the assassin-transforms-into-a-normal-life trope. In most films featuring a former assassin, the hitman leaves his old world behind. He rebuilds his world with a new family, […]
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GeekMom: 10 Random and Geeky Facts About Weird Gifts
For many who celebrate Epiphany, January 6 is the official end of the Christmas and holiday season. Epiphany, or “Three Kings Day,” celebrates the visit of the Magi to the Christ child. (Not the “Baby Jesus,” as he was likely a couple of years old when they visited, but that’s neither here nor there.) No […]
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GeekMom: ‘Keepy Uppy’: The Game That Won Christmas
In the end, it was the simplest plastic toy that entertained us for the longest on Christmas Day and in the post-Christmas chaos, bringing joy to all of us from ages 8 to 72. Bluey: The Keepy Uppy Game was an instant hit this week, and instant hilarity ensued when we started playing. We are long-time […]
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GeekMom: Tips and Tricks to Being a ‘D&D’ Dungeon Master for Kids
About a year ago I started being a truly regular D&D Dungeon Master for a group of elementary school kids at our FLGS (Favorite Local Gaming Store). A store with someone running a regular group for kids that young is basically unheard of. In all fairness, our FLGS is also a rarity in the fact […]
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GeekMom: The Bath Book Bash 2023
On a lovely weekend, early this fall, we visited a magical place. The geographical place itself is fairly magical when unadorned, but on this particular weekend downton Bath in Maine was rendered even more magical by the annual Bath Book Bash. I have been aware of the Bath Book Bash for the last two years, […]
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GeekMom: 10 Random and Geeky Facts About Fictional Bats
We celebrate Batman Day every September, and although the Caped Crusader is a most worthy subject for this post, I am going to think outside the belfry before the summer comes to a close and talk about some other fictional bats. Bats are one of the classic go-tos for Halloween decorating, but they aren’t really […]
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GeekMom: “Hi, Barbie!”, or the Magic of Pink at Dragon Con 2023
I’ve been going to Dragon Con and other conventions in costume for more than 20 years. I’ve worn Star Wars, Mass Effect, and Ghostbusters costumes, all of which have ongoing communities of cosplayers and meetups. But never have I seen the kind of instant community that happened at this year’s Dragon Con thanks to the […]
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GeekMom: DMs, Level up Your Big Bads With ‘The Game Master’s Book of Villains, Minions, and Their Tactics’
If you play Dungeons & Dragons, especially as the DM, you’ve probably come across the Game Master Books. They’re a series of 5e books designed to help you create your games and sessions that are meant to apply to a variety of campaign settings—as well as offering tools for people who homebrew. I got lucky […]
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GeekMom: Books, Games, Rock and Roll: An Interview With James L. Sutter
Author James L. Sutter has been busy. In between the releases of his romantic young adult novel (Darkhearts, Wednesday Books/Macmillan) and two comics (Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #1, Dynamite Entertainment and the story “Remakers” in Schlock Mercenary #17: A Little Immortality) in June, plus writing for future projects, he found the time to answer […]
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GeekMom: Relive Indy’s Adventures Escape Room-Style in ‘Indiana Jones: Cryptic’ From Funko Games
With all of their Indiana Jones-related releases, Funko Games is certainly setting up to make this summer one full of Indy adventures. We’ve previously played Something Wild! Indiana Jones and Indiana Jones: Throw Me the Idol! This time we were intrigued by the new Indiana Jones: Cryptic game, an escape room-style game centered around the original […]
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GeekMom: Adventure Like Indy in ‘Indiana Jones: Throw Me the Idol!’ From Funko Games
I grew up on Indiana Jones movies as an older millennial the way other kids grew up on The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast. In retrospect, the Disney movies would have been far more age-appropriate, but Dr. Jones and his adventures ended up having a more significant impact on my childhood years. When […]
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GeekMom: ‘The Party’ Is the Tabletop Web Series Heir to ‘The Guild’ and ‘LARPs’
The Guild is arguably the measuring stick by which all geeky web series are now measured. Felicia Day created the show she was meant to be in at a time when networks were quick to ax things loved by geeks when they couldn’t hit the right numbers. The Guild was likely too niche for the […]
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GeekMom: ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Fans Have These 10 Reasons to Hope
Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for the Star Wars franchise series Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch. Enter at your own risk! The Sad Batch–I mean, Bad Batch–viewers got a shock with this week’s season two finale when our favorite group of misfit clones lost one of their own. Yet, after watching the episode […]
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GeekMom: My Must Have Items as a ‘D&D’ Dungeon Master
I’ve been playing various tabletop roleplaying games for over two decades now, but it wasn’t until the past year that I took the seat on the other side of the screen and became a DM. It started when I got the chance to run some more family-oriented games as a way of pulling our two […]
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GeekMom: ‘The Fifth Season’ RPG Is Coming to a Tabletop Near You
N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-winning Broken Earth Trilogy is getting the RPG treatment. Green Ronin Publishing is now crowdfunding on BackerKit for The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game. This RPG is set in the Stillness, a world with unstable tectonics. To the people who live in the Stillness, it seems that Father Earth hates them and is actively […]
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GeekMom: Marvel’s ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’: Joyful, Optimistic, Self-Discovery
Marvel’s new show Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur gives us the originality and joy we need. Lunella Lafayette is a spunky, sparky 13-year-old living in a loving, colorful world filled with youthful exuberance while recognizing things just aren’t fair sometimes. For anyone who remembers the comics, Lunella is a teenage genius, the smartest character in […]
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GeekMom: ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ Game Review
Of the many Christmas traditions I embraced upon moving to the US, the hit movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation did not come easily. And while I still might find Chevy Chase a little off putting, I adore Beverly D’Angelo and it has become one of those movies that the season is not complete without. Like […]
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