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
Jan Amos is veterinarian to large alien creatures. The first mission we find him in the bowels of a giant sea worm, kilometres long, trying to find the bracelet of the wife of a governor. It could be funny but it isn’t really. Continue reading
There’s a secret at the heart of this colony on an alien planet. It eventually all begins to unravel and the entire colony have to face up to the delusion they’ve been living in. Continue reading
There’s a guy who can steal time and spend time (and hence is basically immortal) and the conceptual ghost of World War One…who live in the world, where an ancient immortal from the past basically disrupted time/space/other dimensions. It is 100% amazing. Continue reading
An ex-princess, now mercenary is thrown back into her former regal life when her family is murdered. Can a gun runner run an empire? Continue reading
The sequel to The Three Body Problem follows the attempts to defend earth against the coming invasion. Continue reading
Potentially the story was about either time travel or about a father-son relationship. WHO KNOWS. Continue reading
I know I usually say “I don’t know how to even describe the plot” but in this case, it’s really true. Not only is the plot unbelievably weird, so is the world that you find yourself in. So, here’s an attempt at summing up Liz Williams’ Banner of Souls. Basically, it’s very, very far in the … Continue reading
Oh man, some pretty big feels in this book. Written by Louisa Hall, parts of it is set in a not-too distant future, not quite a dystopia but perhaps a stop on the way there.I guess it tries to establish what is being alive, what merits that. It does this through several interlocking narratives from … Continue reading
I think if I would have read this in highschool, it would have been one of my favourite series. It seems to have everything I’d like in a story: time travel, enhanced humans and history. However, now as an adult it just feels a bit too on the nose. For those of you who … Continue reading
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