Tag: Science Fiction
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Interview with Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan’s debut novel Altered Carbon (2002) made him an instant cyberpunk legend and won the Philip K. Dick Award. Since then he has written two ... -
10 Reasons Doctor Who is the Most Inspired Science Fiction Series Ever
Don’t get me wrong; I like Star Wars and Star Trek, loved Blake’s 7, and enjoyed Battlestar Galactica. I think all those series have many brilliant ... -
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I hate spiders. Really, truly hate them. I am severely arachnophobic. When I see one it sends a jolt through my body that momentarily paralyses me. ... -
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 ... -
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
“Some books have to be sad to get across the ideas the author wants to talk about. Victor Hugo is describing a very sad part of ...