Five Books Featuring Ace Protagonists
An excellent article on asexual/ace characters in popular and speculative fiction from Tor.com. Article: Five Books Starring Asexual Protagonists from Tor.com
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Are We Looking for Aliens in All the Wrong Ways?
A thought-provoking article worth considering. Some of their data isn’t quite up to date, but this doesn’t hurt the article’s ideas or sentiments; though the simple answer for why we’re not doing all this is not that the points aren’t valid, and that some of these speculations may well be correct, but we’re literally looking […]
Read More Are We Looking for Aliens in All the Wrong Ways?Science Fiction: The Art of the Possible
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the […]
Read More Science Fiction: The Art of the PossiblePeace on Earth, Peace in Space
Seasons Greetings! Art by Robert McCall, taken from a Twitter account I follow that posts 70s Sci-Fi Art. I hope you’re all having a Happy Holiday, however you choose to celebrate!
Read More Peace on Earth, Peace in SpaceBook Review: Web of the Witch World by Andre Norton
Web of the Witch World by Andre Norton My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I think I really like Andre Norton. This is only the second book of hers that I’ve read, the second of the classic Witch World series. I really love what she’s done here […]
Read More Book Review: Web of the Witch World by Andre NortonBook Review: Witch World by Andre Norton
Witch World by Andre Norton My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge (for sci-fi/fantasy books that were nominated for awards but did not win). Anne McCaffrey, C.J. Cherryh, and Andre Norton – the forgotten triumvirate of women who moulded the science […]
Read More Book Review: Witch World by Andre NortonBook Review: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
I’m publishing a lot of book reviews I’ve already done if I don’t have anything else to post for the day, until I run out of book reviews worth sharing. (No, I’m not reading this fast. I’m just establishing the flavour of my content because the site is new.) Here’s my review of another one […]
Read More Book Review: Stand on Zanzibar by John BrunnerBook Review: Fool’s War by Sarah Zettel
Fool’s War by Sarah Zettel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge and the Space Opera Challenge. The book has received a lot of mixed reviews. I think the big reason why is that no matter what you’re expecting, this book is not what you expect. Is it […]
Read More Book Review: Fool’s War by Sarah ZettelSeven Things I’ve Learned from the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club
A little more than a year ago I decided that I was going to read an imprint called the SF Masterworks in order of publication, and I formed a book club so that others could join me, share my interest, and discuss the books in question. The imprint was created to circulate classics of the […]
Read More Seven Things I’ve Learned from the Science Fiction Masterworks Book ClubBook Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The purpose of science fiction is, arguably, to make you think and question what it is we’re doing now. The Dispossessed does just that. Source: Book Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
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