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Tag Archives: science fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312
Kim Stanley Robinson fooled me again. The main body of his prose in 2312 is so calm and measured, coolly analytical and matter of fact, that I must have been expecting the Solar System-wide conflict that it portrays to be … Continue reading
Janet Kagan’s Uhura’s Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)
I’ll admit upfront this is a nostalgic favorite. I think it’s also very good. Early in her career, Lt. Uhura met a young diplomat from the world of Eeiauo. The two women bonded over music, singing, and the songs of … Continue reading
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Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #2) (John Lee, narrator)
The Glitter Band is a collection of 10,000 city-state habitats orbiting the planet of Yellowstone, existing in near-perfect democracy, with that democracy guarded by Panoply and its prefects. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has faced crises before, and overcome them. There’s a … Continue reading
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Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous
With Autonomous, Annalee Newitz has written the most subversive SF novel I’ve ever read. I’ve followed Newitz on Twitter for a couple of years but this is the first book of theirs I’ve read, so maybe all of them are … Continue reading
An interview with Michael William Kaluta
Ian Nicholas Mackenzie here. I took a break from working on our upcoming Brian and Wendy Froud edition to talk in the Pub over a few pints of Guinness with another master artist, Michael William Kaluta. Green Man Review: Why … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, fantasy, science fiction
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John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi writes some of the most purely entertaining science fiction being published these days, and The Kaiju Preservation Society is Exhibit No. 1. If you’re looking for a quick, light read with a certain amount of action, angst-free characters, … Continue reading
Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish; Mostly Harmless; Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; and The Salmon of Doubt
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, parody, science fiction
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Jonathan Cowie and Tony Chester’s Essential SF: A Concise Guide
Take a huge group of science fiction fans. Ask them what they think are the most important books, films, TV shows and conventions. You’ll get some strong opinions. Trying to come up with a “Greatest Hits” of any kind is … Continue reading
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Alastair Reynolds‘ Eversion
Doctor Silas Coade is the ship’s physician on sailing ship Demeter in the 1800s, on a voyage of exploration to a previously unreachable inlet. They crash on the coast of Norway, and find an earlier ship, Europa, already wrecked there, leaving a … Continue reading
Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
I love a good time travel book. I wasn’t sure this was going to be one of those, but it eventually won me over. Emily St. John Mandel has followed up two best sellers – the 2014 post-apocalyptic dystopian sf … Continue reading