Category: Fiction
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SF Classics – Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead (1986) by Orson Scott Card, is a SF novel and the sequel of Ender’s Game, even though the events take…
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Worldbuilding for SF – A Writer’s Guide, review
“The classic advice to writers is “Write about what you know.” But if you’re a science fiction writer, you often write about what you…
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SF Classics – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and…
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Dark Star by Oliver Langmead. A review
Dark Star is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting books published in 2015, for many reasons: it’s SF, yet built with the pace and the…
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Top Ten Tuesday (September 1) – Top Ten Characters you just didn’t click with
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish, where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten…
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Top Ten Tuesday (August 18) – Top Ten Autobuy Authors
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish (we are all fond of lists, aren’t we?), where each…
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Aye, And Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany
True, Aye, And Gomorrah is by no means a recent story: it has been published in 1967 in that amazing anthology (Dangerous Visions) that I…
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Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a SF/ space opera by James S. A. Corey – i.e. the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.…
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Liesmith by Alis Franklin. A review
I normally do not like fantasy or even retelling of ancient myths: even when the writing is good, it’s difficult to be fresh and…
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1979 Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) – where the legend starts
This is post number 4 in the Gundam Multiverse, and it will be devoted to exploring in more detail the amazing Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム),…
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Short stories: spotlight
One thing I’ve always missed about online reviews is that they are normally only taking into account novels – with anthologies as a distant…
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Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Brasyl (2007) is a novel by Ian McDonald. It portrays an original SF thriller set on three different timelines – i.e. Brazil at different…
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The Damned by Andrew Pyper. Book Review
You can’t say Andrew Piper’s new novel has an original title. Checking on Amazon I have found a few books with identical or similar names…
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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Years of Rice and Salt Quotes (2002) is a Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative fiction novel. It’s one of the most convincing examples of…
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Borgia: an exercise in historical fantasy
There’s no way this series can be labelled anything else. Certainly not historical tout-court, for the reasons I will explain below. I don’t normally…
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SF Classics – The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is an utopian SF novel. It belongs to the same fictional universe of the Left Hand of…
