We Read Science Fiction

Dear Mr. Scalzi,
Please don’t take all of my money.
Thanks in advance — Cam
Yes folks, I finished The Android’s Dream a few days ago, and while it isn’t quite Old Man’s War in terms of sheer awesomeness, it’s darn close. Moreover, I’m totally hooked on Scalzi’s style, wit and humor as well as his ideas, aliens [...]

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It has been suggested on a number of occasions that I do some sort of top 10 SciFi authors list. However, I don’t think I could easily rank my favorite authors, so instead I’ll simply do a series of articles about them and their stories. I’ll start with John Scalzi.
Many people have suggested that Scalzi [...]

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Some modern science fiction novels have awesome new technologies, some have awesome stories and others have great characters, but as we’ve debated here, rarely are they all combined into one compelling, cohesive and thrilling story. This is that rare book that I use to judge all other “high tech” science fiction novels against.
A Deepness in [...]

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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman nearing the top of my all time favourite scifi books at number 4. As is true for most of my list, it won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. It’s been a long time since I last re-read this book — it was one of the first science [...]

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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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