Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It’s my turn now for the Vostok Blog Tour, presented by iRead Book Tours and that have kindly supplied an ARC of Vostok in exchange of a honest review (thank you!). Vostok is the sequel of Steve Alten (a best-seller…
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Busy time ahead, and the books piling up on my desk are now starting to look like the Great Wall. Some are ARCs from Netgalley, others are e-books I have purchased on a whim (shouldn’t I know better? I would need three lifetimes…
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If jungles, unspeakable monstrosities and places in the middle of nowhere are regular components of your nightmares, search no longer: this is the horror book you want to read. And even if they’re not, like in my case, you can…
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Dangerous Games is an interesting collection of SFF short stories – there are eighteen of them, for a total of 320 pages put together by Jonathan Oliver (an interview with him can be found here) – that explores the concept of game…
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Written in 1983 and adapted into a movie in 1989, Pet Sematary is by any standard one of the more frightening books I ever put my hands on. I recently had a go at it again, and albeit I knew the story by heart for…
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I read this novel (to be precise, and oddly enough, in its French edition) long time ago. I don’t remember what I thought at that time, but the book I remembered all right. And after so many years, being now in…
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That SF is becoming less anglocentric is an exciting and much-welcomed novelty, and I’m not talking here (just) about language, but also culture and tropes. It often results in a fascinating and compelling mix of different worlds and traditions, like in the case…
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Reviewing The Martian is not an easy task, for a series of reasons. The most important is that there has been a lot of hype around this book, therefore expectations from my side (and from other readers, I guess) were obviously high….
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I am not a great fan of supernatural per se, I have to say, and my favourite horror stories have generally a scientific explanation for what happens, even when they scare me silly. What I enjoy in ghost stories, on the…
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In 1967, Harlan Ellison put together a short-story anthology titled Dangerous Visions. Mildly put, this collection made history and “almost single-handedly [it] changed the way readers thought about science fiction.” What all the fuss was about? First of all, the quality…
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