Setting Archive : future
(I try to break stuff down by place and time. Doesnt always work but there you go)
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.
The Martian
Mark Watney is a botanist and engineer assigned to the Ares programme, one of the very few who gets to […]
Posted on 26 July 2014 | By Fence | Leave a response
Wolves
I totally agree with that old saying “never judge a book by its cover”, but more often than not it […]
Posted on 22 February 2014 | By Fence | 6 responses
The Android’s Dream
Part of my Sci-Fi 2014 Experience When a book opens with a death by farting, two deaths by farting actually, […]
Posted on 17 January 2014 | By Fence | 6 responses
Moxyland
Set in a fictional, futuristic Cape Town in South Africa Moxyland is a book that I’m somewhat conflicted about. I […]
Posted on 11 January 2014 | By Fence | 4 responses
Redshirts
p>Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience Ensign Dahl has just been assigned to The Intrepid. In many ways this is […]
Posted on 10 December 2013 | By Fence | 6 responses
Parasite
Book 1 in the Parasitology series. Sally Mitchell was in a car crash, suffered brain damage, but just as her […]
Posted on 16 November 2013 | By Fence | 2 responses
Elysium
In 2154 the rich and privileged have abandoned Earth and now live happily ever after on a space habitat, Elysium. […]
Posted on 8 September 2013 | By Fence
Beasts of the walking city
Book one in the Walking Cities series Blackwell is a Hugliev, a once powerful race that have been hunted to […]
Posted on 2 September 2013 | By Fence
Warhorse
For years humans had thought themselves alone in space. But then the Tampies made themselves known. And they, unlike humanity, […]
Posted on 16 May 2013 | By Fence | 2 responses
Star Trek into darkness
Terrorism is everywhere these days. From Iron Man to Star Trek and everywhere in between, you just can’t get away […]
Posted on 12 May 2013 | By Fence | 5 responses
After tomorrow
In the near future the economy has collapsed. Money is pretty much useless. Matt and his family have been lucky, […]
Posted on 8 May 2013 | By Fence | 9 responses
On a red station, drifting
Ever since she arrived on Prosper Station Quyen has been welcomed by the Honoured Ancestress, the artificial intelligence that runs […]
