Tag: SF
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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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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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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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Flaming the Eastercon (and the web) – The 2015 Hugo Controversy
If you had the impression by following the twitter feed of Dysprosium/ Eastercon 2015 (i.e. the Eastercon SF convention in the UK where, among…
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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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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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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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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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SF from unusual perspectives: International Relations
That SF has often inspired astrophysicists and theoretical scientists is not something that should come as a surprise. After all, space elevators, while first…
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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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SF Classics – Blood Music by Greg Bear
Blood Music (1985) by Greg Bear, originally published as a novelette in the SF magazine Analog, portrays the frightening experiment of a biotechnologist who creates…
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Horror Classics – The Fog by James Herbert
I read this novel (to be precise, and oddly enough, in its French edition) long time ago. I don’t remember what I thought at that…
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NaNoWhat? – Options and (Damage) Assessment
A few days ago I received an email from the NaNoWriMo Team kindly informing me that I, proud winner of the 50,000 word-race, am now in…
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All the (Egyptian) names of Rosetta
Not happy with having discovered many of the secrets of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko thanks to the Rosetta mission and its Philae probe, ESA-Rosetta team scientists have…
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SF Classics –The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K Dick is one of the most famous books of alternate history. In this dystopian…
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Book Review – The Lives of Tao, by Wesley Chu
That SF is becoming less anglocentric is an exciting and much-welcomed novelty, and I’m not talking here (just) about language, but also culture and…
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Book Review: The Martian – Andy Weir
Reviewing The Martian is not an easy task, for a series of reasons. The most important is that there has been a lot of hype around…
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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…