The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read a combined edition of these two books for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. The Time Machine Read for the Need to Reread Challenge. I have, […]
Read More Book Review: The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsBy Sam Reader In 1982, Ridley Scott loosely adapted Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into the classic science fiction film Blade Runner, a detective story that kept the novel’s dark aesthetic, odd symbolism, and meditations on empathy. With sequel, Blade Runner 2049 on the horizon, there’s no better time to get acquainted with the author of […]
Read More A Philip K. Dick PrimerThe Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Challenge, the Second Best Challenge, and the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Challenge. This novel was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus in 72-73, but won none of them. This book gave me a bit of a […]
Read More Book Review: The Book of Skulls by Robert SilverbergSlow Apocalypse by John Varley My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: an engineered bacteria is released into Iraqi oil fields by a lovelorn scientist as vengeance, which mutates to become an airborne pathogen that solidifies all liquid […]
Read More Book Review: Slow Apocalypse by John VarleygiANTS by Edward Bryant My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the 12 Awards in 12 Months Challenge and the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge Winner of the Nebula Award 1979. I read this in a collection of Nebula winning stories edited by Frank Herbert. I see why it won the […]
Read More Book Review: giANTS by Edward BryantGood fuel for stories, whether there’s any truth to them or not!
Read More 5 Mysterious Time TravelersBy Roberto Minto In 2010, at the age of 81, the acclaimed novelist Ursula K. Le Guin started a blog. Blogs never seemed a likely destination for the writer, who by then had a long career in 20th-century traditional publishing behind her. But Le Guin’s new book, No Time To Spare, which harvests a representative sample of her blog […]
Read More What Happens When a Science Fiction Genius Starts Blogging?By Pope Brock was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces … I trawled the constellations, mind abandoned, still aware in some curve at the back of my brain that the world is coming apart at the seams and we’re all fucked, and enjoying […]
Read More The Moon is Full of MoneyBy Icy Sedgwick Think of Death for a moment. Did you picture a tall guy in a hood with a scythe? Or Neil Gaiman’s funky Siouxsie Sioux character from The Sandman? Or was it a more sombre abstract notion of pain and loss? Death can be, and is, all of these things, and much more. But […]
Read More Developing a Relationship with Death
