Tag: Science Fiction
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Interview with Melissa Scott (FINDERS)
Melissa Scott is an award-winning author whose work spans epic Fantasy, cyberpunk, space opera and steampunk. She has been writing speculative fiction about LGBT characters since ... -
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal (Book Review)
The Fated Sky opens in 1961 and continues the story from The Calculating Stars. Elma is an astronaut and is regularly shuttling back and forward between ... -
Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence (Book Review)
Limited Wish picks up the story of Impossible Times six months after we left the teenage Nick Hayes in One Word Kill. Bewildered, traumatised and suffering ... -
Author Spotlight – Gavin G. Smith
Joining us for today’s Author Spotlight is Gavin G. Smith! Gavin G. Smith is the Dundee-born author of the hard edged, action-packed SF novels Veteran, War ... -
The Martian (Book and Film Review)
As a six-year-old primary school pupil in 1970 I remember the strange assembly where the headmaster led us all, as a school, in praying for the ... -
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Book Review)
Late last year, I finally got around to reading Mary Robinette Kowal’s novelette, The Lady Astronaut of Mars. I instantly fell in love with Elma and ... -
Frontera by Lewis Shiner (Book Review)
“’Kane, man, this is not a myth. This is happening. Real Russians, real lasers, real corpses, real soon.’ “’But what if the other was real, too? ... -
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (Book Review)
In December 2017, I saw Brandon Sanderson speak in Glasgow as part of his Oathbringer tour. Two important things happened that night. My then-11-year-old daughter was ... -
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, ... -
Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Book Review)
The Good: I can’t even attempt to summarise the good in a line or two – all I can say is that Rosewater blew my expectations ...
