Tag: dystopia
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Guest Post – Enter The Apocalypse. An Anthology, by Trevor Zaple
Enter The Apocalypse is a new anthology of short fiction from TANSTAAFL Press that features thirty-two authors all dealing with a version or another of…
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Children of the Different, by S.C. Flynn. A review
It doesn’t happen often that I review a self-published book – not because I have anything against indie authors, but just because my time…
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Pandorum (2009). A Review.
It seems that all SF movies I come across these days are mixed with strong – and, unfortunately, often sloppy, or unoriginal – horror…
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel and one of the best of its kind. It portrays the dangerous journey…
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XXI Century Sci-Fi – Broken Angels, by Richard Morgan
Broken Angels (2003) is a SF dystopian novel by Richard K. Morgan, and the sequel of Altered Carbon, by many considered the cyberpunk of the…
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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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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo Bacigalupi is a SF dystopian / biopunk novel. It’s set in Thailand in the 23rd-century, where powerful biotech…
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SF Classics – The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
The Drowned World (1962) is a SF novel by J. G. Ballard, an author that has written in other literary genres and became especially famous…
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SF Classics – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell is a novel that needs no introduction. Difficult to imagine a dark, dystopian book that had a stronger…
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Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. A review.
When I asked the editor (Pan Macmillan) through Netgalley for a copy of Station Eleven – in exchange of a honest review, as usual –…
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SF Classics – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) is one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most famous novels. Narrating a lunar colony’s revolt against Earth’s rule…
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SF Classics – The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham is a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi horror novel where mankind, with the exception of the protagonist, Bill…
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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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Utopia, dystopia and other monsters
“Where in fucktopia are you, Dexter?” Yells Debra Morgan, obviously searching in vain for her brother. Sure thing, Debra did not hint at anything…
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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…
