Posted on November 9, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
Title: Breaking Point
Author: James E. Gunn
Year: 1972
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Short story collection with your standard range of quality: some good ones, some average ones, some poor ones. Solid reading, but nothing overly memorable.
Title: In the Problem Pit
Author: Frederick Pohl
Year: 1976
Rating: 3 out of [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
Something bizarre, bigger than anyone could ever build, was protruding from the surface of Mercury. She was not sure whom to tell. She was not even sure she should tell anybody at all.
Title: Usurper of the Sun
Author: Housuke Nojiri
Year: 2002
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
VIZ Media’s Haikasoru imprint has, [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
The K’airth-v’sa — literally, “mate of the private war” — was as attractive to the Braxaná warrior as he or she was deadly. And it could be a woman. Yes, though years of male dominance had buried that fact. And if any woman deserved the title, this one certainly did.
Title: In [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
What we hope to present in this anthology is an alternative vision of sf from the 1970’s to the present, one in which it becomes evident that the literary potential of sf was not squandered.
Title: The Secret History of Science Fiction
Editors: James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel
Year: 2009
Rating: 2 out of 5 [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
A few weeks ago Kim Stanley Robinson wrote an article for New Scientist, Science fiction: the stories of now. It’s a stirring defense of the genre and its importance in today’s world. Robinson criticizes the jurors of Britain’s Booker award for judging “in ignorance” when they routinely overlook sf. You tell ‘em, [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
We work to make the many worlds better.
There. That’s the official line.
Title: Transition
Author: Iain M. Banks
Year: 2009
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
At first glance, the latest novel from Banks is a conspiracy thriller set against the context of a familiar science fiction concept: the existence of a multiverse containing [...]
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