Via the Serendipity Express, two science-fiction novels have recently crossed my panoply of reading. Or perhaps have trudged should I say they have come across my literary desert, in search of a shared oasis? Or flew in from the internet of (paper) things? In any event, by divergent routes, these two books ended up on […]
I’m not mad for sci-fi, but I always am for a good story, well told. Cixin Liu is a masterful storyteller, and The Three-Body Problem was for me a totally enthralling story, from the first page to the last. Although first published in 2006, The Three-Body Problem was not translated and published in English until […]
There’s something particularly appealing to me about reading (in this case listening to, ably read by Lewis Arlt) a novel by a female: great characterization. It’s sadly lacking in a lot of science fiction, where the male author is much more interested in technology, or space exploration, or things having to do with the warp […]