We Read Science Fiction

When I find an author I like I tend to binge and read their whole backlog of novels in short order. For Wilson I started with The Chronoliths (a 4/5), then progressed to Spin (my #9 and a 5/5), Axis (3/5) and now Darwinia. In this novel all of 1915 Europe is replaced by savage [...]

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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is number 6 on my all-time top 10 list of Science Fiction stories you need to read. Written as a novella in 1977 and expanded into a novel in 1985, it won both both the Hugo and the Nebula awards that year. The follow up sequel Speaker for the [...]

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When I started this blog I enjoyed writing as much as reading, however recently I’ve found far too many other sources of SciFi Reviews online, and doing some of these books justice as a “review” is getting harder and harder. Therefore while previous entries in this list talked about plot, story and characters, I’ll talk [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90.
Not much more I can say than that. Anything I’m capable of writing wouldn’t be adequate. Here’s the obituary.

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Superb. Greg Bear’s Moving Mars won the Nebula Award in 1994 and was a finalist for the Hugo the same year. It’s a gripping story about early colonial life, politics, science (the fictional kind) and deep characters. Written from the point of view of the central female character — who is both strong and flawed [...]

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