Reviews

Literature: A Clean, Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

The Lost Signals sits down in a well-lighted studio to discuss Ernest Hemingway’s atmospheric vignette, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” Bring your own brandy, the service here is terrible. [Aggregate score 9.25]

AFI Top 100 #066: Raiders of the Lost Ark

TLS plunders the depths of the AFI list to decide if everyone’s favorite worst-archeologist-ever hero is deserving of a place on it.
[Aggregate score: 7]

AFI Top 100 #089: The Sixth Sense

TLS sees specters and reevaluates their own misconceptions in an AFI review of M. Night Shyamalan’s original horror/thriller.
[Aggregate score: 10]

Literature: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

The Lost Signals try to discern who is real and who is not in their analysis of John W. Campbell’s (writing as Don A. Stuart) classic tale, “Who Goes There?” [Aggregate score: 8]

 

 

Literature: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

Less Dickensian and more Poe-esque, The Signal-Man is a story of ghastly foreshadowing and we’re just the Signals to review it. [Aggregate Score: 7.33]

Literature: The Janitor in Space by Amber Sparks

The TLS crew cleans up their emotional refuse (and ponders re-evaluating their review scale) in Amber Sparks’ wonderfully bittersweet story, The Janitor in Space.
[Aggregate score: 6]
Published in American Short Fiction, 2014.

 

AFI Top 100 #008: Schindler’s List

TLS tackles one of the modern day masterpieces that showcases both real life horror and honest humanity in the face of it, in the AFI #8, Schindler’s List.
[Aggregate score: 10]

Literature: By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein

TLS plays all the parts– past, present, and future– in a review of trope-making Robert A. Heinlein classic, By His Bootstraps
[Aggregate score: 9.25]

Literature: Tierra y Libertad by Madeline Ashby

They were built to serve man, but all they did was serve.. as a nuanced look at the development of AI and as a metaphor for the exploitation of workers. What lazy, good-for-nothing robots.

Tierra y Libertad

Aggregate Score: 8

AFI Top 100 #075: In the Heat of the Night

TLS heads to a small southern town riddled with racial tension to solve a murder (and enjoy some creampies) in this classic police procedural drama.

[Aggregate score: 10]