Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. As I mentioned in my review of Wool, the first in this series, I came across this author through a post on metafilter. He has … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2012
23 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: future
8 Stars
5 Comments
Wool by Hugh Howey
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. For generations people have lived in the silo, the only look at the outside they get is on the screens. But the cameras are outsides, … Continue reading
22 January 2012
Call no: 791.43
Genre: non-fiction, Popular culture
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The good, the bad and the multiplex by Mark Kermode
As a film critic Mark Kermode watches films. A lot of films. A whole lot of films, and he often doesn’t like what he sees. He describes how he started reviewing films as a child, not for anyone else to … Continue reading
19 January 2012
Call no: 303.3
Genre: non-fiction, psychology
8 Stars
4 Comments
Obedience to authority by Stanley Milgram
In the 1960s Stanley Milgram and his associates carried out a number of experiments on obedience. They were set-up a situation where people thought they were helping in a memory/learning experiment, and how it related to punishment. So they subjects … Continue reading
The best thing by Margo Lanagan
Mel is not having a good year at school. Her friends have turned on her, and her boyfriend one day stopped talking to her, became her ex over night and hasn’t spoken to her in weeks. But she does have … Continue reading
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Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Book 3 in the Uglies series. Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & the 2012Science Fiction Experience. At some point in the future a biological oil-eating weapon brings about the end of civilisation as we know it. … Continue reading
14 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: 1580s, C16th, Prague, Vienna
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The alchemist and the angel by Joanne Owen
Jan lives with his aunt and uncle. His parents died of the plague and he had to leave his home village and move to Vienna. At first he is, understandably withdrawn and upset, but after a few months his uncle … Continue reading
The truth about Mr. Darcy by Susan Adriani
The great thing about working in a library is that I find myself picking up books that I usually wouldn’t. The terrible thing about working in a library is that I find myself picking up books that I usually wouldn’t. … Continue reading
9 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: South Africa
9 Stars
6 Comments
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. Zinzi December finds lost things. That’s her shavi, the gift she received, along with her Sloth, for her crime. No one really knows where the … Continue reading