Sam Riedel

Author Archive

  • September 26, 2013
    We’re looking down the barrel of a new election season in America. There aren’t that many big ones, but local elections can be just as important as their national...
  • August 21, 2013
    I’ve always found it bizarre how much humans love to be scared. I’m not the biggest horror buff, but will happily spend hours in the company of movies like The Thing...
  • July 4, 2013
    Iâ??d say Adam WarRock is back, but he never took a vacation in the first place. The nerdcore artist is celebrating three years of nonstop rapping with his annual donation drive,...
  • June 19, 2013
    How do I describe S.M. Wheelerâ??s debut novel Sea Change (Tor/Forge)? Itâ??s one of the most peculiar books Iâ??ve ever read. Drawing on the tendencies of the Brothers Grimm,...
  • June 6, 2013
    My first exposure to Injustice: Gods Among Us, Warner Entertainment's newest video game featuring the capes-and-tights crowd from DC Comics, was on the subway in NYC several months...
  • May 2, 2013
    As mythological beasts go, it's tough to beat dragons. Though we tend to think of them as European inventions, cultures around the world from the ancient Greeks and Jews to the...
  • March 29, 2013
    Ben Thompson, the Internet's foremost Badassologist, is back to rub history's collective garbage in all of our faces. As the curator of BadassOfTheWeek.com since the site's inception...