By Margret Atwood “More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two…
Welcome to 2019 and a revamp of the Mecha Panda blog! Hello! My name is Jon. You may or may not know me from Pondo’s Playground. This year, at least, I will be taking over the blog. Not taking over in a MWHAHAHAHAHAH sort of way, more just 52 weeks of Jon posts! (That’s how…
Tell me a story about futuristic worlds, space travel, cybernetics, or magic and I’m all in. This is not an exaggeration. There is something about the level of imagination and creativity necessary to bring a reader into those kinds of stories that hooks me from the first sentence. The stranger the better. I grew up…
We’d like to welcome our podcast host Jon as our guest blogger for a second week. Here is the second installment of the two-piece story arc featuring his beloved cat Ava. The human has moved since Ava fell asleep. It joins her on the sitting room bed, holding the black thing it normally holds while staring…
I love crime stories. True crime, cold cases, mysteries, private eyes, court room drama, you name it and I have probably seen the movie. Something about hearing the why behind a crime is fascinating. Even more so when the criminal has an identifiable quirk like John Wayne Gacy. I think it goes back to watching…
When I was really young I had many aspirations. I still do, to a certain extent, but over the years they’ve definitely evolved into more coherent paths. As a lifelong martial artist I had been on more roadtrips and yearly flights to the United States than most kids ever would in their lifetime. I was…
