What to Expect

By G.R. Nanda

This blog is a creative outlet. Readers can expect mostly fiction on this website, along with commentaries on fiction of different mediums.

As I’m a part of the sci-fi/fantasy reading audience, that’s the audience I’m writing for. Expect a lot of talk on speculative fiction as well as my own science-fiction and fantasy. As I’ve said on my About page, I love the large scale in fiction and have a great admiration and fascination for world-builders such as Frank Herbert and J.R.R Tolkien and their works. I attribute Star Wars and Harry Potter to infatuating me with the fantastical and futuristic. In my later adolescent years, I fell in love with indie and art house science fiction films such as Blade Runner (1982) and Ex Machina (2014). One of my favorite contemporary film directors is Denis Villenueve who’s responsible for Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, two of the best science fiction films I’ve seen from this century. I think the latter was a fantastic display of creative vision and originality that lives up to the stature and beauty of the original Blade Runner. It’s a sequel that doesn’t pander to nostalgic imagery or retread a film we’ve already seen (*cough, *cough – Star Wars: The Force Awakens).

Given Villenueve’s impressive feat in creating a visually striking and expansive futuristic world in 2049, I am incredibly excited to see how he adapts one of my all time favorites, the sci-fi book Dune by Frank Herbert. My fingers are crossed for a mind-blowing theatrical experience come this December. I really hope this film is not postponed because of the coronavirus! I plan on seeing the movie on its release date if I can and will post a review here.

Expect much to arrive here.