Science Fiction and Fantasy Comment and Reviews
This nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award should not be confused with Margaret Atwood's poem of the same name. There is a link here. The author, Laura Jean McKay references Atwood's work in the introduction and as you read this book you definitely feel a link between the two works. The Animals in that... Continue Reading →
Peter F. Hamilton is one of the great Sci-Fi Space Opera authors. The scope with which he embraces his story telling matched only by the likes of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter. Saints of Salvation is the third book in the Salvation sequence, a series of books with an epic scale and sprawling narrative. I... Continue Reading →
Something a bit different. I have been super busy doing various things. I have been world building and writing for years and these have been coalescing into novel. I have made a timid start, it is no Tolkien by any means and my literary skills are meagre but I thought I would post parts every... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago 'The Write Path' (https://seethewritepath.wordpress.com/) tagged me into an Outstanding Blogger post with some questions. Now I don't know 10 blogs to pass this onto but I promised I would answer the questions. If you could live anywhere, where would it be? I suppose I have a couple of suggestions - I... Continue Reading →
Mortal Engines is an adaptation of a book by Philip Reeve and adapted to the screen by Peter Jackson and the team behind Lord of the Rings. This film is a lot of fun and totally nuts. The premise is that in the far future the world suffered an apocalypse that resulted in major cities... Continue Reading →
The Light Brigade comes across at first glance as a very standard military science fiction in the vein of Jack Campbell but the further you get into it you realise that there is more to it. It reminded my a lot of John Scalzi's work and in terms of morals and meanings it was very... Continue Reading →
It is not often that I find a book nearly totally uninteresting, but The Old Drift manages to come very close. It is an ambitious book following a several families over the generations in Zambia from colonial times to the present day. It reminded my very much of a Wilbur Smith novel without white superiority.... Continue Reading →
Teen Wolf was a supernatural hero show that has been on my radar since its arrival in 2011. I had originally tagged the show as something more for the ladies, the clips and media showed a lot of young fit men shirtless most of the time with very little in the way of story. I... Continue Reading →
This episode matched its title perfectly, this was the last part of the introduction to the series. These past three episodes have led us by the hand to explain how the universe is now, who everyone is and what the key issues are and now Picard can venture forth and be the hero once more.... Continue Reading →
This new series of Star Trek is certainly making sure it respects the past to build a future. This second episode is somewhat of a non-episode in some respects after the action of last week this weeks sees a more considered approach, putting meat on to the bones of the plot. This was much needed,... Continue Reading →
