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I sometimes wish there weren't new TV shows in the summer. I used to get a lot more reading done during those few months between the season finales and the season premieres, but it's sometimes nice to have something new to watch. Summer has its speculative fiction shows too. I'm only talking about network TV since I don't have cable/satellite or good Internet for Netflix.

Extant - Season 2 - CBS

Extant is a great science fiction show. The premise is what if a female astronaut became pregnant by an extraterrestrial. The show is set in the near future with computer-controlled houses, driverless cars, and even androids as children. I wouldn't be opposed to having an android child. Ethan is awesome. Smart, sweet, caring, and more humane than the majority of humans. Season Two has started out with a bang, and I'm excited to see what will happen next.

Under the Dome - Season 3 - CBS

Stephen King's Under the Dome was the first long book I read on my Kindle (2nd generation), so I was looking forward to seeing the TV show. It has completely gone off script from the book, which isn't necessarily a bad thing as it keeps me guessing. At times I think the show would have been better as a mini-series. The premise is what if a dome cut off a small town from the rest of the world. Even though I feel like the series has drawn out too much, I keep watching for the characters and the mystery of the Dome.

Zoo - Season 1 - CBS

Zoo is a book by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge and has now been turned into a TV show. The premise is what if the animals woke up and realized they outnumbered us. The idea has hooked me. In the commercials, they say there are 7 billion of us and 700 billion animals. That sounds like a whole lot of animals. I enjoyed the couple episodes and plan to see what Zoo has in store for us viewers. And I think we all need to be even nicer to animals because you never know when they will wise up and realize they outnumber us.

Wayward Pines - 10-episode event - FOX

Wayward Pines is a series of books by Blake Crouch and has been turned into a 10-episode event on Fox. The premise is what if a FBI agent woke up in a strange town with no way out. The twists are amazing and have kept me guessing. Although the premise of such a strange town isn't new, the reason why they are that way is mind-blowing. If you pick up any spec fic show this summer season, I would suggest Wayward Pines first. I'm looking forward to reading the books too.

What speculative fiction TV shows are you watching this summer?

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Promo Monday

Title: Under the Dome

Author: Stephen King

Publisher: Scribner

To purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Under-Dome-Novel-Stephen-King/dp/1439148503/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1282919355&sr=1-1 

 

When the Dome traps Chester Mill, chaos ensues in Stephen King's novel Under the Dome. The small town is in deep trouble, and they all can't support the team. As Big Jim Rennie begins his dictatorship, the ones opposing him have to look out. The Dome brings out the best and worst in people, and the town learns how to take sides. Colonel Dale Barbara and his side are trying to find the source of the Dome, while Big Jim and his side are trying to stop them. How can they fix things in Chester Mill, when they are all stuck under the Dome and are no more than fish in an aquarium?

Stephen King takes the reader on a fast-pace thrill ride, full of twists and turns, in his Under the Dome. After the initial boom, the plot slows a bit until after the first day of the Dome. Then, the novel is off and running again. Under the Dome is full of complex characters, and the reader will love some and loathe others. If you take Stephen King's It, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a dash of George Orwell's 1984, and put them under The Simpsons Movie's Dome, then you have the recipe for Under the Dome. At over a thousand pages, it is a long book, but it is definitely worth reading.


I finished Stephen King's Under the Dome on January 4, 2010. It was the first book I read and finished in 2010, and I absolutely loved it. I kept pressing next page on my Kindle as fast as I could to find out what happened. Even though it's very long, it's worth reading.

Review: Stephen King's UNDER THE DOME

When the Dome traps Chester Mill, chaos ensues in Stephen King's novel Under the Dome. The small town is in deep trouble, and they all can't support the team. As Big Jim Rennie begins his dictatorship, the ones opposing him have to look out. The Dome brings out the best and worst in people, and the town learns how to take sides. Colonel Dale Barbara and his side are trying to find the source of the Dome, while Big Jim and his side are trying to stop them. How can they fix things in Chester Mill, when they are all stuck under the Dome and are no more than fish in an aquarium?

Stephen King takes the reader on a fast-pace thrill ride, full of twists and turns, in his Under the Dome. After the initial boom, the plot slows a bit until after the first day of the Dome. Then, the novel is off and running again. Under the Dome is full of complex characters, and the reader will love some and loathe others. If you take Stephen King's It, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a dash of George Orwell's 1984, and put them under The Simpsons Movie's Dome, then you have the recipe for Under the Dome. At over a thousand pages, it is a long book, but it is definitely worth reading.

You can buy Under the Dome by Stephen King pretty much wherever books are sold.