Archive for the ‘Books’ category
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Book Review: ‘Breathing Space’ By Ian Fydell
The year is 2095. After the devastation caused by the third World War, and many centuries of devastation brought on by Mother Earth’s blind and uncaring human progeny, man is now looking for a new home. Countless centuries of pollutants, wars, deep mantle mining, and general... -
Science Fiction Books – New Releases September 18th – 24th
It’s Cranky Writer Week in this edition of Science Fiction Books New Releases! The third week in September is a slow one for science fiction titles but I’ve scoured the internet and found some very interesting reads. A new Star Trek title, a couple of graphic novels, a gigantic... -
Book Review: The ‘Metrozone’ Trilogy By Simon Morden
Book 1: Equations of Life It’s London, England after Armageddon. Europe has been nuked by Christian fundamentalists, Russia’s a criminal kleptocracy, and America is in the hands of the extreme religious right; Japan has copied Atlantis and has sunk beneath the waves. It seems... -
New Science Fiction Book Releases – September 11th
The end of Summer is here and it is bringing with it everything from space opera, adventure quests, speculative fiction, mythology, and, yes, more vampires. There’s a couple of funny novels and a contender for best debut novel of the year. These are some of the best books... -
Book Review: Ann Aguirre’s ‘Aftermath’
Sirantha Jax is a soldier in the Conglomerate Forces. She has a genetic ability to take her ships into “grimspace”, the primary mode of interstellar travel. Her body is further enhanced with various high-tech implants to facilitate her skills to use against the Morgut, a... -
About The Novel That Inspired ‘Blade Runner’
Of those people who have seen Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner,’ only a small percentage of those people have read the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel that the film is based on: ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ This is unfortunate, because the book is... -
‘World War Z’ Zombie Footage Is Downright Creepy
Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane on the set of 'World War Z' Max Brook’s novel ‘World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War’ is one of the best zombie books ever written so it was no surprise when Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B Entertainment, snatched up the... -
Upcoming Science Fiction Book Releases – September 4th
This week’s picks feature 1950s pulp fiction, Peruvian zombie hunters, a jedi training manual, and some science fiction romance. Sprinkle in a little alternate reality, parallel universes and good, old-fashioned space opera and you have a great start to September. Below... -
Book Review: ‘Final Days’ by Gary Gibson
We’re in the world of 2235 and there are more than a dozen interstellar colonies, linked to Earth through a central wormhole terminus, the Lunar Array at the Copernicus crater on the moon. Earth dominates the colonies through the machinations of the paramilitary Array Security... -
Among The Best Cyberpunk Novels: ‘Snow Crash’ By Neal Stephenson
What follows is a quote from ‘Snow Crash’ that has multiple levels of meaning when applied to the entire book: “She’s a woman, you’re a dude. You’re not supposed to understand her. That’s not what she’s after…She doesn’t... -
Book Review: ‘Zendegi’ By Greg Egan
It’s 2012 and Australian web journalist Martin Seymour is posted to Iran to cover the elections. He’s soon caught up in massive protest demonstrations and sees at first hand the violence of the regime thugs, the Basijis. He also meets up with a female activist called Mahnoosh,... -
Book Review: ‘Ready Player One’ By Ernest Cline
It is the year 2044 and the planet is in serious trouble. World oil supplies have all but dried up, causing the economy to meltdown. Unemployment rates are breaking records. Fuel prices are so high that people cannot afford to drive anywhere; automobiles are abandoned everywhere.... -
Book Review: ‘The Power Of Six’ By Pittacus Lore
Releasing today, ‘The Power Of Six’ is the sequel to the New York Times Best Seller young adult science fiction novel, ‘I Am Number Four’ by Pittacus Lore. Starting off just minutes after the end of ‘I Am Number Four’, ‘The Power Of Six’... -
‘The Matrix’ Pair Shooting Ambitious Adaptation Of ‘Cloud Atlas’
Andy and Lana Wachowski (‘The Matrix’) and Tom Tykwer (‘Run, Lola, Run’) are co-writing and co-directing an ambitious adaptation of author David Mitchell’s metaphorically ambitious novel, ‘Cloud Atlas’. Directed by the trio, as two separate... -
World Science Fiction Convention Announces 2011 ‘Hugo Award’ Winners
The World Science Fiction Convention (“WSFC”) has announced the winners of its long-running and prestigious ‘Hugo Awards’ for 2011. This years award winners were announced on August 20 in Reno, Nevada. In attendance at the annual event were such science...
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