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A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk …
I'm reading the Dutch translation, and honestly it's almost just worth doing that for the translator's comments. Particularly in this footnote, the translator corrects Murakami in a not so subtile manner.
Short-listed for the Whitbread Award, this remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, …
I love seeing Scotland through alien eyes. I didn't like that its description of its inhabitants as "vodsels" was also relatable. (Not a Scotland thing, more a me thing.)
Eamon’s newfound happiness is shattered by the kind of murder that the government doesn’t want …
The first one was a pleasant surprise I found at Typewronger Books. I'm hoping they'll have this one in stock as well.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
Less science fiction that I'm used to, more social and economic fiction. And pleasantly optimistic once you get through the carnage of the first half (read: keep going it will get better).
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …
From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert …
Errant Blood is a literary crime thriller by a startling new Scottish writer. Eamon Ansgar has fought in Afghanistan and …
Permutation City is a 1994 science-fiction novel by Greg Egan that explores many concepts, including quantum ontology, through various philosophical …
Leaving in its wake desolate cold and frozen land, the legendary ice dragon has never been tamed until it meets …
I really do like the continuation of Revelation Space! There is some of that grand scale of things still in there. But the dialogue, and the way the characters interact (and forgive?!) each other just feels off. Like canny valley. And that’s by an already lower threshold I set for sci-fi. My memories of previous instalments is far more favourable than my experience with this book. A bit of a let down. Ro summarise: it’s good, just not really good.
The Future of Another Timeline is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Annalee Newitz. The feminist time-travel adventure follows Tess, a …
Visionary near- future techno thriller about climate change.
