Category: Apocalyptica/Dystopia
Book Review: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. I had to struggle to determine what I was going to give this book as a rating. I can’t say it was a bad book, […]
Read More Book Review: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutBook Review: Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.
Star Songs of An Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Collections! Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. Two of the novellas in this collection were also counted towards similar, but not the […]
Read More Book Review: Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.Novella Review: Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars SPOILER ALERT! Read for the 12 Awards in 12 Months Reading Challenge, the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. I could […]
Read More Novella Review: Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.A Weird West Playlist
Do you ever wonder what writers listen to when they write? For me it depends on the nature of the story I’m telling, and its setting. For the Wyrd West Chronicles I like to listen to spaghetti western theme music, epic fantasy and game music written in a similar style, a handful of steampunk music […]
Read More A Weird West PlaylistNovella Review: A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr.
A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read in Star Songs of An Old Primate as part of a few reading challenges: Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge and the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. The collection is also being read for the LGBTQ Reading […]
Read More Novella Review: A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr.Book Review: The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge and the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: fluctuations in solar radiation melt the polar ice caps, causing massive flooding in most of the world’s major cities, rising heat, and heavy rains that […]
Read More Book Review: The Drowned World by J.G. BallardBook Review: MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: ecological devastation, corporate greed, and a mad scientist’s bioengineered supervirus. This book was my last hurrah for 2016; I’m not […]
Read More Book Review: MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
