A more diverse universe blog tour
Today, being the 27th of September is supposed to be the day that I post my review of The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles’ by Daniel Heath Justice....
27 September 2012
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Read for the Coursera online course, Carl’s 2012 Science Fiction Experience, the Not Just for Stormtroopers Sci-Fi challenge, & the Gender in Fantasy & Sci-Fi 2012 Genly Ai has been on...
23 September 2012
The Martian Chronicles [essay] by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury once said that he didn’t write science fiction. Science fiction is about the possible; he wrote fantasy. Events in his books “couldn’t happen.” [1] An argument could be made...
21 September 2012
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
First published in serial form in the 1950s The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that together tell the story of humanity colonising Mars. Almost all the stories are...
17 September 2012
John Carter [based on the book by] by Edgar Rice Burroughs dir. by Andrew Stanton
In the 1880s a young Edgar Rice Burroughs is summoned to his uncle’s home. But when he reaches it he discovers that John Carter is already dead and the body is...
17 September 2012
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Read it online Imagine a world without men. A world where women are able to reproduce without men, where the only children born are female, and where motherhood is all important....
10 September 2012
A princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book 1 in the Barsoom series In post-Civil War Arizona John Carter has found a gold rich mine. His partner sets out to buy machinery to let them work it properly,...
8 September 2012
The country of the blind by H.G. Wells
Read online Long long ago, in a valley in the Andes, a group of settles were cut off from the rest of the world. They didn’t mind too much, they lived...
2 September 2012
The Invisible man by H.G. Wells
Another coursera course book, and another that fits with my reading for this years RIP project & for the 2012 Sci-Fi Challenge. One wintry day in a small, quiet English village,...
1 September 2012
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