Science Fiction
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SOFTWARE by Rudy Rucker (BOOK REVIEW)
“Intellectually he had always known it was possible. A robot, or a person, has two parts: hardware and software. The hardware is the actual physical material ... -
ORDERS OF BATTLE by Marko Kloos (BOOK REVIEW)
Reviewer’s Note: As this is a review for the seventh book in Marko Kloos’s ongoing Frontlines series, it will contain minor spoilers for overarching story elements ... -
One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence (Impossible Times #1)
Published by: 47North Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 201 Format: ebook Purchased Copy from Amazon Do you ever get exhausted by humongous fantasy sagas? I don’t blame ... -
THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell (BOOK REVIEW)
“Indeed, the workings of animal biology seemed to mirror the workings of human society. Joseph’s ecology lecturer introduced the students to three terms for how organisms ... -
ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break from secondary schooling ... -
THE EVIDENCE by Christopher Priest (BOOK REVIEW)
“Then it suddenly struck me that what I was doing to my novel draft was similar to what I knew of mutability. The original text, the ... -
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton – Book Review
Everything was so much clearer in space: stars, sounds, the entire electromagnetic spectrum coming alive all around her, like seeing fireflies dance in a dark meadow ... -
To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars by Christopher Paolini—Book Review
Published by: Tor Genre: sci-fi, space opera Pages: 878 Format: Hardback Review Copy Courtesy of Tor and Stephen Haskins. Thanks! A hardback copy of Christopher Paolini’s ... -
NEW YORK 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is the second in an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break ... -
THE DROWNED WORLD by J. G. Ballard (BOOK REVIEW)
Ballard’s debut novel The Drowned World was published in 1962 after he had already enjoyed some years of success with short stories. In a later interview ...
