The future…
Sometimes a wonderful land, sometimes a dystopia. Sometimes in the past, because if the book was written in the 60s but set in the 90s then it is both set in the future and the past, or at least that’s how I sees it, and this is my blog, so that’s the way it is.
8 April 2012
Cast: Dakota Goyo, Evangaline Lily, Hugh Jackman
Script: Don Gilroy, Jeremy Levins, John Gatins
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: future
5 Stars
4 Comments
Set in the not too distant future, Real Steel is all about Robot Boxing. Human boxing just couldn’t live with the public’s demand for yet more violence, and so robots were built to destroy one another. And this high tech … Continue reading
25 February 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
Setting: 1930s, 1940s, China, future
8 Stars
1 Comment
I recently posted a link to some of the nebula nominees that are available to read online. And today I decided to read one, so at random i clicked a link and found myself reading The Man Who Ended History: … Continue reading
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
23 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: future
8 Stars
5 Comments
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
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
2 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: 1940s, future, London - Blitz
7 Stars
12 Comments
Sequel to Blackout, and set in the Mr. Dunworthy ‘verse. Or at least that’s what I’m calling this series-ish of books. This is my first read for the 2012 Science Fiction Experience & you can find out what everyone else … Continue reading
Ever since Katniss’ father died in a mining accident she has been the one to take care of her family. Her mother’s depression left her unable to care for either of her daughters, so Katniss took the role on. Katniss … Continue reading
31 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: philiosophical, psychological fiction, sff
Setting: future
8 Stars
2 Comments
On an island, all alone, the narrator, Bran, lives out his exile. He has been here ten years, time carefully marked out. He is kept busy each day by the struggle to survive, but also to report and note everything … Continue reading
8 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: 1940s, future, London - Blitz
8 Stars
7 Comments
Set in the same ‘verse as Doomsday Book and To say nothing of the dog this is a book about historians. But not the sort of historian you or I might be familiar with, but one who actually travels through … Continue reading
In the far distant future fourteen year old Anax is about to sit an exam. A four hour interview that will decide whether or not she will be accepted into The Academy. Her chosen topic is the history of Adam … Continue reading
