Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
The Rise of Endymion (1997) by Dan Simmons is the fourth and latest instalment of the Hyperion Cantos, and set in the same fictional universe of Hyperion, even though a few centuries later. Complex, political, and more literary than many…
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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 style of a crime-story. It’s noir and cyberpunk with a touch of mythology. And, yes, it’s…
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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 week bloggers are given a new Top Ten theme to blog about. This is time is the…
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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I was recently discussing with some friends about our favourite horror novels and more precisely which specific kind of horror each one of us preferred (this article can be a good introduction to the debate). I had no troubles selecting my…
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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 the Fall of Hyperion – are truly exceptional. But Dan Simmons is an extremely versatile writer,…
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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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I have been an avid manga reader (and anime fan) since childhood, and what I loved the most was to pick my hero and follow him (her) during the story. Or a villain, that sometimes is far more charming than any…
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(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Random House, through Netgalley.) Being a Bram Stocker Award nominee and portraying an adventure on the high seas were the reasons – equally important – I requested a copy of this…
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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 follow the stories of seven pilgrims to the planet Hyperion, where a legendary and ferocious creature…
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