Monthly Archives: December 2008
from the ridiculous to the sublime
I’ve just finished reading two very different books: T2 The Future war by S.M. Stirling, and Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. T2 is part of what I call my late night crap reading, the store of cheap and nasties … Continue reading
Filed under Non-Fiction, SF
You’ve gotta read Alastair Reynolds…
….if you’re into science fiction that is. He writes space opera with hard SF edges and it’s this world of technological possibilities that lift the stories out of the doldrums. Most of the plots are fairly conventional: saving the world/s, … Continue reading
Filed under SF
A Woman in Berlin.
Reading this book was like slipping into a Dali painting. Could something like this really happen? And no, I’m not talking just about the horrors of war experienced by the anonymous author (now believed to be journalist Marta Hiller) but … Continue reading
Filed under Non-Fiction, Uncategorized
