Category Archives: SF

February 12, 2009

I’m annoyed, in a three-dimensional way.

I’m feeling all bitter and twisted about lending one of my favourite books to a nameless friend (all right, he’s called Mal) 15 years ago who clearly liked it. A lot, given that he’s never returned it.  Every now and … Continue reading →

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January 24, 2009

And they lived happily ever after…

Look, I’d be the first to moan if a story’s authenticity was sacrificed for the sake of warm fuzzies on the last page and I totally *get* that a not-happy ending may be the only or best resolution to a … Continue reading →

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December 27, 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 →

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December 6, 2008

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 →

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