Tag: Sci-fi
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Author Spotlight: Vicki Jarrett
Joining us for today’s Author Spotlight is Vicki Jarrett! Vicki Jarrett is a novelist and short story writer from Edinburgh. Always North was partly inspired by a ... -
Interview with Michael Swanwick (THE IRON DRAGON’S MOTHER)
Michael Swanwick is the author of modern Fantasy classic The Iron Dragon’s Daughter (1993), which reimagines the world of Faerie as a post-industrial wasteland. It was ... -
Interview with Catherynne M. Valente (SPACE OPERA)
Catherynne M. Valente is a unique voice in modern genre fiction. Her most recent novel, Space Opera (2018), was nominated for a Hugo Award. Her YA ... -
To the Moon and back with Dublin Worldcon
Every so often I find myself picking up an old classic in an impulse to broaden my education. So it was when I plucked H.G.Wells The ... -
The Hive Reads… Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to the ninth instalment of our ‘Hive Reads’ feature! (You can read the others here.) After settling on Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky as our next read, ... -
Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson
Snapshot is a convincing sci-fi mystery novella by master of the craft Brandon Sanderson. In a near-future America, the city of New Clipperton has some amazing ... -
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 ...
