Agent Palmer

What happens when you mix fairies, tall tales, and the stuff of fantasy with baseball? The answer is Summerland by Michael Chabon, a fantastical mix of fantasy in prose spiced with the great American pastime of baseball.

Marvel has done it again. Luke Cage, the newest addition to Marvel’s growing Netflix arsenal of entertainment has been so well done, it not only stands on its own, it further expands the larger Marvel Netflix Universe and to an extent the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well, without beating you over the head with obvious references.

American Gods feels like required reading at least for a certain subsection of the culture, mainly geek culture. But it offers something for everyone and much like a requirement for high school or college graduation, everyone should have picked this up at some point along the way.

It’s hard for someone who enjoys comic book movies and isn’t completely immersed in the source material or the comic books themselves, to not draw parallels from Suicide Squad to Guardians of the Galaxy.

With Armada, Ernest Cline is back to his old tricks: creating a story in the universe of his own creation where the geekdoms and pop culture of our current reality coexist.