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Tag Archives: science fiction
Larry Niven and Steve Barnes’ Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, and The California Voodoo Game
Gaming in many forms has been part of the fandom community for decades now, so it’s not surprising that one of the best-known authors in the science fiction field would decide to do a series built upon the idea of … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bear’s Ancestral Night
Elizabeth Bear is one of our favorite and most reviewed authors here at GMR, so I’m a little chagrined to admit that Ancestral Night is the first book of hers that I’ve read. It’s also the first ebook that I’ve … Continue reading
Larry Niven’s Rainbow Mars
Ah, to visit John Carter and the inhabitants of Barsoom, Edger Rice Burroughs’ richly imagined Mars. The characters in Robert Heinlein’s The Number of The Beast did so, in their travels across the multiverse, and now the protaganist of Rainbow … Continue reading
Andrew Stanton’s John Carter
I missed John Carter in the theaters, but ran across the DVD on one of my browsing trips through Amazon. I figured I’d probably enjoy it, and I found the DVD for half price. How could I say no? Edgar … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival
Elizabeth Bear has put me in an odd position: I read Blood and Iron, loved it, found it rich, stimulating — altogether an extraordinary book. I’ve now read Carnival, and find myself without much to say. Well, not entirely, but … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s The Chains That You Refuse
I seem to be running across a number of writers for whom the idea of “genre” is as fluid as the idea of a “short story.” Stories are like a painter’s drawings or a composer’s piano studies: they can range … Continue reading
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Robert A. Heinlein’s The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein and The Number of The Beast
Our kind but ever so iron-fisted Editor-in-Chief decreed some time ago that Green Man wouldn’t do science fiction, so we don’t. (And the last person to disobey this edict is still down in the rat-infested cellars below the GMR corporate … Continue reading
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Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini is known for having started the Eragon series when he was quite young, and falling into a startling amount of success with it. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars represents not only his first novel targeted towards … Continue reading
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Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire, Book One of the Teixcalaanli Empire series
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives at the World City that is at the center of the vast interstellar Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small station, has been murdered. It seems that he got … Continue reading
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Larry Niven’s The Draco Tavern
The Pub as a setting in fantastic literature has long and interesting history. There’s the White Hart in Arthur Clarke’s Tales from The White Hart, Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon in a series of novels by Spider Robinson, Munden’s in Orstrander’s Grimjack series, the … Continue reading