Escape Velocity

A curated Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction Media

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Collected: Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware

COLLECTION: Forced by circumstances to leave your old life behind, you join the ranks of the Grey Wardens, an ancient order sworn to protect the world against the murderous Darkspawn.

Strangeland

Review: Strangeland – Wormwood Studios

In this point-and-click video game, you’ll find yourself trapped in a madness-inducing cycle of death, desperation and poor jokes, chasing a golden-haired woman through a creepy world of croaking ravens and hollow laughter.

Collected: Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

COLLECTION: Do these books even need an introduction? They are the famous story of an eleven-year-old orphan who finds out he is a wizard and becomes a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Seven books filled with exciting adventures await…

Review: Dragon Age: Origins – Bioware

Forced by circumstances to leave your old life behind, you join the Grey Wardens, an ancient order sworn to protect the world against the murderous Darkspawn. You’re the people’s only hope to stop their imminent advance. Shall you succeed?

Altered Carbon

Review: Altered Carbon – Richard Morgan

In a future in which your consciousness can be downloaded into a machine in your neck Takeshi Kovacs wakes up in prison on Earth, far away from home on Harlan’s World, sleeved in a new body, to solve the murder of a man rich enough to have survived his own death.

Review: Fantasy High – Dimension 20

In this D&D web series, we follow a group of kids during their first year at Agueforth Adventuring Academy, a high school where kids learn to be classic D&D adventurers. The so called “bad kids” meet each other in detention, and form an adventuring party that faces monsters and, occasionally, classmates.

Artemis

Review: Artemis – Andy Weir

Jazz Bashara lives in Artemis, earth’s first colony on the moon. She is also poor, a petty criminal and a deep disappointment to her father. When the chance at a really large stack of money comes by, she can’t pass up – but gets entangled in a game with the future of Artemis itself at stake.

Review: Dune: Part One – Denis Villeneuve

In Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert, Paul, heir of House Atreides, and his family receive orders to take control of the planet Arrakis, the rich desert world that produces the spice that allows for interstellar traffic, and take control of the fief from their arch-enemies, the Harkonnens.

Collected: Dune by Frank Herbert

COLLECTION: Paul Atreides and his family move to the desert world Arrakis, to take control from their arch-enemies. In the struggle for the dominion of Arrakis that follows, Paul catches a glimpse of a terrible future that lies ahead.

Dune review

Review: Dune – Frank Herbert

First part in the Dune Chronicles – Paul Atreides and his family move to the desert world Arrakis, to take control from their arch-enemies. In the struggle for the dominion of Arrakis that follows, Paul catches a glimpse of a terrible future that lies ahead.