If you are a fan of Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) or PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels, this novel is sure to please. Willis is a well known and “decorated” sci-fi author, having won multiple Nebula and Hugo Awards. She discovered JKJ through reading Robert Heinlein and gives him a tip of the hat in an amusing, clever and thoughtful work that combines time travel, mystery, and comedy of manners. It’s 2057 London and Ned Henry, an […]
Alexandro Jodorowsky’s Screaming Planet
Alexandro Jodorowsky is a genius, I have no doubt. He’s also absolutely bat sh*t insane. Which leads to some truly intense writing, and even more so vision. Screaming Planet is a set of stories (but for one) created for Metal Hurlant, a French anthology series along the lines of Heavy Metal. The screaming planet of the title is an asteroid from a long ruined planet that streaks through the universe, passing its sorrow to those sentient creatures it feels a kinship with. As […]
Another post-apocalyptic exploration of people
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” The novel begins in Year 25, the year of the flood. The story of what made year zero the starting point is left to the imagination of the reader, as are the details of “the waterless flood”. However, since the story explores the same time period as the events of Oryx and Crake it is quickly presumed that it is the pandemic murder that took place there. The events are […]
Space mermaids, space pirates, and space life insurance underwriters . . . also sexy space banking!
This book is drunk. But like, bear with me and stuff, k? Because there are different types of drunk, and analogously speaking, this is one of the better ones. I’m not talking about one of those slurry, messy drunks, where you couldn’t find your own ass if somebody paid you to. And I’m not talking about mean drunks or black-out drunks or any of those other kinds of drunks that basically make you temporarily worthless as a human being. This is the kind of drunk where […]
A frenetic and pulpy injection of dimension-leaping madness.
Like the 90’s TV show Sliders dipped in a swirling pot of multicoloured paint, Black Science traps a small group of scientists and hangers-on in a constantly shuffling world, as they traverse alternative universes hoping to stumble upon the right parts and equipment to fix their machine and head home. Grant McKay, self-professed trailblazer and ‘Anarchist Scientist’ is a conflicted chap. On one hand, he has successfully broken through the barriers of reality with the Pillar, a device of his own creation; but on the other, he’s now trapped […]
Robot sex, and a post-human exploration of slavery.
If nothing else, my experiment in reading Charles Stross for the first time resulted in one of the most unique reading experiences I’ve had in the last couple of years. This book was somewhat of an impulse read. I wanted to read Stross’s Neptune’s Brood, because it was one of the few Hugo noms I hadn’t read yet, but noticed it was the second in a series. All the reviews said you didn’t need to read the first one, but I’m me, and I have […]
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