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Recent Reviews
- The Four Profound Weaves • 2020 • Fantasy novella by R.B. Lemberg 16. Apr 2021
- The Pill • 2020 • Dystopian novelette by Meg Elison 15. Apr 2021
- Stepsister • 2020 • Fairy tale novelette by Leah Cypess 14. Apr 2021
- 2021 Hugo Award Finalists 13. Apr 2021
- The Prestige • 1995 • SF Fantasy Horror novel by Christopher Priest 12. Apr 2021
Category Archives: Science Fiction
The Pill • 2020 • Dystopian novelette by Meg Elison
I hope you don’t mind me calling the protagonists in this story “fat” instead of some cultivated term paraphrasing extreme forms of obesity. One, I’m a German guy culturally tending towards direct aggressive terminology. Two, the main protagonists thinks of … Continue reading
The Prestige • 1995 • SF Fantasy Horror novel by Christopher Priest
Synopsis: Two world-class prestidigitators feud each other in fin-de-siècle London. Rupert Angier is a disinherited aristocrat starting his career with lucrative séances for grieving families. Alfred Borden is his opponent, a creative working-class magician frustrated by Angier’s unethical exploitations. The rivalry … Continue reading
Shadow Prisons • 2020 • Dystopian novelette by Caroline M. Yoachim
Synopsis: In a dystopian future, a harsher form of the Chinese social credit system is implemented. The reader witnesses the system becoming deployed with the help of glasses and implants for augmented reality. They make the whole world look pretty … Continue reading
Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super • 2020 • Superhero novelette by A.T. Greenblatt
First sentence: Watch Sam burn. Or sort of burn. Well, more like light up, then burn. But only his head. Synopsis: Sam has a weak power which he barely can control. A video of his spontaneous combustion went viral, cost him … Continue reading
Ammonite • 1992 • Planetary Romance by Nicola Griffith
Synopsis: Ammonite follows anthropologist Marghe Taishan as representative of a government agency to planet Jeep. The planet has been colonized centuries ago, but contact was lost, but should be recolonized now. A military expedition has been sent there, but soon, … Continue reading
Riot Baby • 2020 • Superhero novella by Tochi Onyebuchi
Holy shit, this novella weighs more than a ton. Consume it at your own risk, but be aware that you’ll have to hold your breath reading through 150 pages. Kevin is the titular “Riot Baby”, born in 1992 during the … Continue reading
Robot Artists and Black Swans • 2021 • SF collection by Bruce Sterling
Introduction by Neal Stephenson: BRUCE STERLING can do something I cannot, which is write short fiction. Just now it is an enviable superpower for a writer to possess. The last few years have been infamously challenging for anyone trying to … Continue reading
Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse • 2020 • Post-apocalypse short story by Rae Carson
Synopsis: Brit, her wife Marisol, and her mother Eileen survive the Zombie apocalypse as members of a group of women. Brit is about giving birth which makes the Zombies restless: they smell blood and a newborn will cause a rampage. … Continue reading
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Robot in Roses • 2017 • SF novelette by Bruce Sterling
Synopsis: Wolfgang is an art critic from Nuremberg in 2187. He has the honor to shepherd “The Winkler” for several weeks during its slow voyage through the Alpine mountains towards Northern Italy. The Winkler started eight years ago in Japan, … Continue reading
A Beauty arrived for my shelf: Captain Picard‘s Enterprise
Call me a nerd, but I always loved Star Trek Next Generation with Captain Picard. How could I say No to this 218 pages Illustrated Handbook accompanied with a highly detailed model of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D? It’s worth every … Continue reading
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