The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein is one of his later novels (published in 1980) and is not just a story. The basic plotline is two couples in…
I was looking forward to reading Edge by Thomas Blackthorne. I liked the blurb (which you can see in the picture). It sounded like it was going to be an…
Book number 1 in the 100 books in 2011 challenge is Grass by Sherri Tepper. It’s number 48 on the SF Masterworks list. The blurb says: Generations ago, humans fled to…
This is not one of 2011’s 100 books. I read this last year and I’m a little behind in my thoughts on reading posts. I’m a huge fan of Iain…
I have a huge stack of books I’ve read waiting for blog posts. Some seem like much harder work than others. Selling Out by Justina Robson is one of the…
Is anybody else loving Misfits? I think it’s the best new sci-fi on the telly for ages. Can’t wait for series 3 next year!
Number 33 of the SF Masterworks is Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss, which deals with the generation-ship vision of spaceflight. As I’m doing with the Fantasy Masterworks, I’m sort of making…
I read a lot and as I’ve got better at writing (and more confident in my writing), most of what I read either makes me feel ‘I can do this…
Wow, what a difference two years makes. I’ve just got back from alt.fiction 2010 and it was thought-provoking and inspiring. I went to alt.fiction 2008 and it was a fun…
I put The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin up for my book club to read. There was a point before I’d read it where I was getting…
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