On rare occasions a book shows up in the mail from a publisher or publicist. I am always grateful when they do, because at least I know someone came to the website! But I also like to make sure that you the reader understands when something has been provided to me so that you can [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve enjoyed Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child as authors in the past. The movie adaptation of Relic was probably their most notable mainstream success, but this author pairing has managed to punch out hit after hit of science-fiction meets ancient relics. They premise Indiana Jones-like stories with an FBI agent. Think Mulder meets Indy. The [...]
Continue Reading...Traveling is one of my favorite pasttimes, but almost as much as the destination matters to me, the journey oftentimes provides me the unique time to actually open a novel and relax. Over the last couple years, I’ve realized that perhaps my favorite form of science fiction is actually the short-fiction style. Maybe it’s me [...]
Continue Reading...I just recently read Niven’s Ringworld for the first time, and was really enthralled by both the concept (a ring-world surrounding a sun that provided everything a planet can provide in absolutely absurd quantities) and the novel itself. Given my great experience with that book, my interest was piqued when I saw Destiny’s Road. The [...]
Continue Reading...I’m writing this post to tell you about the posts I’m going to post. Get it? Anyways, I’ve enjoyed a great couple of weeks of SciFi-ness, and I’ve got plenty of things on the horizon. I can tell you I’ve just broken in to the world of Phillip K. Dick, and I’m amazed. I was [...]
Continue Reading...A couple weeks ago, I received an email from a company called ChooseCo, which are the publishers of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. They asked that I take a glance at a new book that will be released in April, 2008, titled The Golden Path by Anson Montgomery, so of course I accepted. I [...]
Continue Reading...Orson Scott Card is one of my all time favorite science fiction authors, and so when I saw this book on the shelves I was a little taken aback. A contemporary action-thriller novel? With his name on it? Strange. I decided to give it a shot anyways, and it turns out Card is pretty good [...]
Continue Reading...Have you ever seen previews for a movie, heard lots of good things about it, and didn’t wind up seeing it in the theaters. Then it hits the DVD store, and you still didn’t pick it up for years. Finally, you realize that you should rent it, so you do, but it’s been 4 years [...]
Continue Reading...There’s science fiction and then there’s fiction about science. Artifact, by Gregory Benford, is the former. What Mr. Benford (himself a physicist) has tried to do is basically create a story around the concept of a new element and/or set of scientific standards. The story opens with a young architect, Claire, working feverishly on an [...]
Continue Reading...I’m spending a little more time on the Orson Scott Card Ender saga than anything else (well, except maybe for Lost) because honestly his books have really influenced how I read science fiction, and how they shape my opinions of other works within the genre. The first post that I wrote about was regarding the [...]
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