Sleeping Giants is the first book in the Themis Files series. The uncovering of a giant hand leads to the formation of a team who uncover more parts all across the world. Continue reading
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Episode 3: A Closed and Common Orbit
In this Episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to Becky Chambers about A Closed and Common Orbit, the sequel to A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I then speak to Professor Blay Whitby about where we’re at with artificial intelligence right now. Continue reading
Book review: War for the Oaks
War for the Oaks was the book the kicked off the urban fantasy genre. We follow Eddi McCandry, a musician from Minneapolis, who finds herself chosen by the Seelie Court (read: fairies) to help make their war with the Unseelie Court a ‘mortal’ one. Continue reading
Book review: The Night Circus
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern revolves around two magicians (for lack of a better word) pitted against each other in a game when they were both young children. Celia by her father and Marco by the man who picked him out of an orphanage – the mysterious Mr A H. Continue reading
Episode 2: Infomocracy
In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to Malka Older, author of the science fiction mystery-action-thriller, Infomocracy. We then find out about the state of e-democracy and e-participation with Stefan Strauß from the Institute of Technology Assessment in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Continue reading
Book review: Stealing Snow
Oh my god, what a terrible book. The plot, characters, pacing and world was terrible. Plot of Snow by Danielle Paige: Snow, a patient in a mental hospital, is in love with a boy named Bale (likewise a patient). BUT. She’s actually a princess in another world. Yes. And he gets kidnapped and taken to this … Continue reading
Book review: A Closed and Common Orbit
Blubbers So this is the sequel to Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and it was so good. I think it was better than the first book – though the first book is necessary for this one being so good. Essentially, in the first book you get the world building, you know … Continue reading
Book review: Woman on the Edge of Time
Connie gets trapped in a mental institution but has started to escape to the future with Luciente – however it’s important that Connie fights her real world battles so Luciente’s future can exist at all. Continue reading
Book review: Infomocracy
A smart sci-fi thriller, set in the election year after the world has been divided into micro-democracies. But is the election under threat, and with that threat, the undermining of the entire micro-democracy system? Continue reading
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Episode 1: The Interminables
In the first episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to Paige Orwin about the amazing The Interminables and discuss the history of magic with Professor Frank Klaassen. Continue reading
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