Science Fiction & Fantasy
It really can be hard to separate the fantasy from the sci-fi, I mean to many Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series is fantasy cause it has dragons. But they are genetically altered aliens of the future, so that makes them sci-fi, right?
It’s easy to lump them all together
20 November 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
10 Stars
3 Comments
Book one of The Wheel of Time In a quiet back water village strange things are stirring. It has been a hard winter, harder than any can recall, and spring is long overdue. What news there is from the world … Continue reading
Short story published in Apex Magazine Issue 41 Eva is a witch, and a researcher into the Fae. As Weaving dreams begins she is helping Giancarlo with his research. He is an historian, interested in meeting a Fae as a … Continue reading
Blue is the daughter of a psychic. A non-psychic in a family of those with the gift. But she does make things “stronger” or clearer. So she will often accompany them on their readings. Every year on St. Mark’s Day … Continue reading
21 October 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short story
9 Stars
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Read free online at Lightspeed. On a battlefield a young girl is scavenging among the bodies. She and the other camp women are looking for anything of value. Any soldiers still breathing will not be by the time they are … Continue reading
20 October 2012
Cast: Hanna Stanbridge, James Nesbitt, Karen Gillan, Katie Dickie, Niall Bruton
Script: Colm McCarthy, Tom K. McCarthy
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: 2010s, Scotland
6 Stars
3 Comments
Part of my RIP Peril Onscreen Fergal and his mother are on the run. They arrive in a rundown block of flats, clearly hiding out. Mary wants to keep her son safe, but he is a teenager, and trying to … Continue reading
One of my RIP reads For years now Jackson Oz has been tracking animal attacks on people. It started out as a joke, but as the data kept coming in he began to think it was more than that. He … Continue reading
8 October 2012
Cast: Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Script: Rian Johnson
Genre: sff
Setting: 2040s, the future
8 Stars
4 Comments
Its 2044 and time travel hasn’t been invented yet. But in thirty years time it will be. And then promptly criminalised, which means of course that only the criminals use it, and mainly they use it to send people they … Continue reading
6 October 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
6 Stars
2 Comments
Over a thousand years ago the first Human came to Everland. And that led to the Melding; the Human world crashed into the Folk world and out of the destruction both worlds were now joined. Ever since the Folk have … Continue reading
6 October 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
Setting: alternate world, England
8 Stars
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Read online : Clarksworld Magazine issue 73 After the War came the Empress in the North. England was preoccupied with recovery. With dealing with rebellion throughout its empire. And the discontented in England were prepared for a change. But the … Continue reading
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 Gethen for two years. He is the First Mobile, … Continue reading
