Category: Fiction
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Where Gundam fights – locations ガンダムシリーズ
This is post number 3 in the Gundam series, aimed at helping you find your way in the complex multiverse of this amazing franchise…
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SF Classics – Titan by Stephen Baxter
Titan (1997) is a SF/ techno-thriller by Stephen Baxter. It examines Saturn’s moon Titan as the object of a manned mission aiming at discovering…
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Apollo 18 (2011) – A review
“There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the Moon.” This is how the opening line on the movie’s website, a American-Canadian SF/ horror…
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Deaths of Tao, Rebirths of Tao – Wesley Chu’s amazing trilogy.
I have already written – rather enthusiastically – about the first instalment of this trilogy, The Lives of Tao, saying that the book is an innovative example…
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SF Classics – Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet (1938) by C. S. Lewis is the first of the Cosmic Trilogy and an early example of space travel…
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Shade of horrors: The Girl Next Door
I was recently discussing with some friends about our favourite horror novels and more precisely which specific kind of horror each one of us…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The City & the City by China Mieville
The City & the City (2009) is a weird fiction novel by the British author China Mieville and based on the investigation of a…
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Gundam, alternate timelines – ガンダムシリーズ
Post number 2 in the Gundam series. Let’s talk today about something I have already mentioned in my introduction to this amazing anime franchise,…
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SF Classics – Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut is a novel about World War II experiences and journeys through time, narrated in a non-linear order by a soldier…
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Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons – Book Review
In SF fandom Dan Simmons is especially known for the Hyperion Cantos series, and with a reason: those books, especially the first two – Hyperion and…
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Europa Report. A Review
No, Europa Report is not a Jupiter Ascending ante-literam movie (the fear is legitimate considering the astronomical proximity) and, while I have still to…
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VOSTOK – A review
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…
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SF Classics – Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men (1930) is a SF novel about the future history of mankind over the next billion year or so written by…
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Forthcoming on EHM blog – reviews
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…
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The Ruins by Scott Smith. A review
If jungles, unspeakable monstrosities and places in the middle of nowhere are regular components of your nightmares, search no longer: this is the horror…
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Interstellar: a long overdue (a)critical review
On a long-haul flight I’ve finally found the time to watch Interstellar, and if you have not done it yet, I advise you to. It…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City (2001) by Alastair Reynolds is a hard SF novel set in the universe of Revelation Space series. It portrays what remains of…
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The Gundam Multiverse – ガンダムシリーズ. Where to start
It is possible that, albeit you might not be a anime / manga fan, you would have still heard something about a series called Gundam (or…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Parasite by Mira Grant
Parasite (2013) by Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire is an interesting blend of techno-thriller, horror and SF. It features a near-future humanity made virtually disease-free…
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Dangerous Games, an anthology – Book Review
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…
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Connie Radar on the Moon
Who’s Connie Radar PhD anyway? As IO9 rightly defined her in this article, she’s a SF comics “badass, retrofuturistic space heroine”, who in her adventures lands on…
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SF Classics – The Uplift War by David Brin
The Uplift War (1987) is a SF novel by David Brin and part of the Uplift Universe. It portraits a fictional future universe where…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
Neptune’s Brood (2013) is a SF novel by Charles Stross. The story is set in the same universe of Saturn’s Children, but 5000 years…
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Horror Classics – Pet Sematary by Stephen King
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.…