Science Fiction
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A Book and a Film: The Man Who Fell to Earth
I can’t remember exactly when I first saw the film of The Man Who Fell to Earth – back in the 1980s, I guess, when TV channels ... -
Fall by J.P. Ashman
John Wick meets Altered Carbon/Deus Ex Machina in this savagely surreal short-story from J.P. Ashman. Senfel, a soldier-type who survived ‘the fall’, leaving her with survivor’s ... -
Planetfall by Emma Newman
“Mack understands these people far too well. They may be scientists and experts and handpicked from thousands of hopefuls vying for every single place on Atlas, ... -
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
Warning: this review contains spoilers! “War eats the victors last.” Stepping back into the worlds of Red Rising was not as easy as I expected it ... -
Two Films & a Book: Blade Runner (1982; 2017) & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Having recently seen Blade Runner 2049, I finally got around to reading Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on which the original Ridley Scott Blade ... -
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
I first heard about this book when reading through Philip K. Dick’s biography, I Am Alive and You Are Dead, which took its title from one of the ... -
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Nobody needs me to say that Cryptonomicon is relentlessly witty, written with wonderful, vivid prose, immersed in layers of fascinating concepts and technology, and absolutely vertigo-inducing in scope. These ... -
Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal
“My clients are most excited by wabi-sabi-” I paused as the confusion on his face deepened. “It’s a Japanese term. Something that witnesses and records the ... -
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the ... -
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
‘None of you have ever seen anyone like me,’ I said. ‘I come from a people who live near a small salty lake on the edge ...
