#ScienceFiction Archives – Page 2 of 11 – scintilla.info
Book Review: The Relentless Moon, A Lady Astronaut Novel Book 3, Mary Robinette Kowal Science Fiction: The Relentless Moon, A Lady Astronaut Novel Book 3, Mary Robinette Kowal When we left Elma York at the end of The Fated Sky, she and a team of scientists and colonists were on their way to […]
Book Review: Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu Science Fiction: Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu When I was younger I often stayed up all night to read a book. Now, though, I need my sleep. I no longer have the resilience to read into the wee hours of […]
Book Review: Off Target, Eve Smith Science Fiction: Off Target, Eve Smith Blog Tour February 17, 2022 All in all, I may prefer my speculative fiction to be set somewhere in the far off future on a far distant planet with completely imaginary issues. Off Target is none of these. It is brilliant, […]
Book Review: Wilthaven, Oli Jacobs Science Fiction: Wilthaven, Oli Jacobs Blog Tour February 4, 2022 Wilthaven is difficult to categorize. Genius often is. Written as a sort of “found document” compilation, it reads as a series of reports from agents of the BPD, a secret agency devoted to protecting earth against the paranormal. […]
Book Review: Null Set, Cas Russell Book 2, S.L. Huang Science Fiction/Thriller: Null Set, Cas Russell Book 2, S.L. Huang Author S.L. Huang has a rather different biography than your typical writer. She has a degree in mathematics from M.I.T. Afterward, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a stuntwoman and an armorer. […]
Book Review: We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker Science Fiction: We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker Sometimes the most frightening sci-fi books are those that feel like they could already be happening. I’m pretty sure that We Are Satellites could begin next Tuesday. Rather than suppose a dystopian future, Pinsker has examined our often dystopian […]
Book Review: When the Children Return, Children of the Eye Book 2, Barry Kirwan Science Fiction: When the Children Return, Children of the Eye Book 2, Barry Kirwan Blog Tour December 1, 2021 The invasion of Earth was complete. Aliens had successfully persuaded human adults to murder their own children and then subject themselves to the […]
Book Review: Radiance, Catherynne Valente Science Fiction: Radiance, Catherynne Valente Every once in a while I come across a book that leaves me wondering at the end of the last chapter, “What in the world did I just read?” Radiance by Catherynne Valente is one of those books. It is sci fi…but […]
Book Review: Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor Science Fiction: Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor Growing up with American science fiction, I have read many versions of “aliens have landed in” New York or London or Los Angeles or even Kansas or Iowa. Lagos? Nigeria? Not so much. Still, if aliens did come to Earth, why […]
Book Review: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi Science Fiction: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi 2010 Winner of the Nebula Award, the Campbell Memorial Award, Hugo Award, Compton Crook Award and the Locus Award for best first novel. One philosophy of teaching swimming is to throw the student into deep water and let them […]