Category: Fiction
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SF Classics – The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin, is the first, famous example of feminist science fiction. Also well-known for the…
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Seven Modern Plagues by Mark Jerome Walters
Seven Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, by the journalist, academic and veterinarian Mark Jerome Walters, is the updated version of his famous…
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SF Classics – The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, originally published as a serial on a magazine in 1956, is considered by many The Count of…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Descent by Ken MacLeod
Descent (2014) is the latest novel of the Scottish writer Ken MacLeod. Set up in a near future, it follows a young man’s life…
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SF Classics -The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
The Reality Dysfunction (1996), by Peter F. Hamilton, it’s the first book in The Night’s Dawn Trilogy, one of the best known in…
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SF Classics – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
” The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury is a 1950 science fiction short story collection that follows a future history structure and tells the…
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Close Reach by Jonathan Moore – A review
(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Random House, through Netgalley.) Being a Bram Stocker Award nominee and portraying an adventure on…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Countdown by Mira Grant
Countdown (2011) by Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire is a novella part of the Newsflesh trilogy and the prequel of the famous novel Feed,…
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SF Classics – Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Written in 1961, it narrates the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars, raised among Martians and shipped back to…
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Book Review: Morningside Fall, by Jay Posey
(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Angry Robot Books, through Netgalley.) Morningside Fall, by Jay Posey, is what you can call…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Skinner by Neal Asher
The Skinner (2012) is one of the Neal Asher’s most famous books, and the first of the Spatterjay series. It narrates the history of…
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SF Classics – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a not just a book, but a multi-media phenomenon started by the British comedian Douglas Adams…
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The numerology of Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams is the author of that SF masterpiece The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy more people have seen in movies than actually read……
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XXI Century Sci-Fi – Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan
Altered Carbon (2002) is a novel by Richard Morgan. Set in a future four hundred years from now, on a few exoplanets in a…
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SF Classics – Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Hyperion (1989) is a Hugo-Award winning novel by Dan Simmons. Otherwise known as “the Canterbury Tales of SF” for its narrative structure. You will…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I…
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XXI Century Sci-Fi – Prey by Michael Crichton
Prey (2002) is a novel by Michael Crichton, and, as others of the same author, presents unintended consequences of newly discovered technologies and scientific…
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SF Classics – Childhood’s end, by Arthur C. Clarke
“Childhood’s End” is a 1953 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, and one of the most famous SF books ever. Originally a short…
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Jupiter War by Neal Asher – Book Review
Jupiter War is the third and last book of the Owner trilogy, where the adventures of the rebel Alan Saul, his sister Var, the…
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A fascinating tale of unearthly violence and urban horror: Ladies Night, by Jack Ketchum.
Warning: This is a R-Rating book. Unsuitable for YAs and anybody with a delicate stomach – it’s extremely graphic, to say the least. However, it…
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Guest Post: Firelight – The Rebel, by Sophie Jordan. Book Review
What follows is a guest post (for info about how to contribute posts to this page, please look up at Guest Area Section). The original version…
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When Foucault’s Pendulum meets Men in Black – The Descent by Ken Macleod. A book review
When a book starts like The Descent does, with the protagonist blaming himself to be a stalker, pervert, drug-addict, conspiracy theorist, and “fuck it.…
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The new zombie’s canon: Word War Z, by Max Brooks – book review
It has been rightly affirmed that the World War Z book and the movie share two things in common, the name, and the fact they were…
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Zombies, Reloaded / 2 – Apocalypse Z by Manuel Loureiro
It was by mistake that I stumbled upon Apocalypse Z. I was actually searching for Max Brooks’ Word War Z – I heard about…