Reviews of books, movies, TV shows
Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge My rating: 5 of 5 stars In 1984, I read Vernor Vinge’s Peace War when it was serialised in Analog Magazine. Years later elements of that story still stayed with me and – since this was the age of e-books – I decided to read it again. For obscure reasons, […]
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The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Stars Are Legion is refreshing on so many fronts. Firstly it’s a stand-alone not a trilogy, so not weighed down with all that entails. Secondly the world building and technology is visceral – literally: bio-organic spray-on spacesuits, walls and floors on
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Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks My rating: 3 of 5 stars World building is the real star of Lotus Blue, the debut science fiction novel for Australian author Cat Sparks. Very quickly in this novel Sparks creates a vision of a future Australia – an already ancient land – that’s further weighed down by centuries
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