It would be very hard to overstate the impact this book had on my life when I was a kid. Heinlein was, bar none, my favorite SF writer, and this was, bar non, my favorite story by him. It didn’t hurt at all that I discovered it during those lonely days of my adolescence when a kid hits that “Oh, I get it now” stage in your neurological development and his ability to amass new knowledge far outstrips his social skills. I very much identified with the character “Mike,“ consequently.

Theorizing that one could time travel within the last eight minutes of someone else’s lifetime, Captain Colter Stevens stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished.  He awoke to find himself trapped on a train, facing a mirror image that was not his own and driven by an unknown bomb to blow up in a violent explosion.  Now, Captain Stevens must continue re-living those eight minutes until he can figure out who planted the bomb and prevent him from detonating a meaner, dirtier nuclear bomb in the present. 

All Quantum Leap jokes aside...

A couple years ago, Zoe Bowie (Better known these days as "Duncan Jones") gave us the excellent "Moon," a clever, tight, psychological film. Costing about a third as much as most other studio SF pictures, it was heralded as the long-overdue return to thinking man's Science Fiction.

We've long been anticipating his next picture, and here's the first trailer

Alas, no video for this one, but it's an amazing song.