The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by her I’ve ever read is a short story, and that...
31 July 2019
Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Orpen is travelling alone across Ireland. She’s left the only home she ever knew and is looking for something. She’s left safety and security to risk her life out in the...
10 April 2019
The poison belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Last year I read the first book in the Professor Challenger stories, The Lost World, where the land of the dinosaurs was discovered by Challenger and his team of explorers. A...
25 January 2019
The Martian obelisk by Linda Nagata
Humanity is dying out. Climate change. Terrorism. Disease. People have accepted that these is no future, just a slow decline and then they’ll be no more. The colonies on Mars have...
16 July 2018
A quiet place dir. by John Krasinski
Imagine a world where you couldn’t make a sound. No talking, no laughing. Not even walking with shoes on. A world where the response to noise is death. No imagine being...
22 April 2018
Ex-heroes by Peter Clines
Book one in the Ex-heroes series Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague...
14 March 2016
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness
Mikey is an ordinary teenager. About to finish at high school, worried and excited about the changes college will bring. He isn’t like the indie kids, you know, the ones with...
3 October 2015
Mad Max : Fury Road dir. by George Miller
When I went to see Age of Ulton1 in the IMAX there was a trailer for Mad Max : Fury Road on. And I knew right then and there that I...
29 May 2015
Interstellar dir. by Christopher Nolan
Some time in the near future a blight hits earth. At first it hits the wheat and then spreads to other crops. The whole world turns its attention to farming, to...
11 November 2014
A Wrinkle in the skin by John Christopher
AKA The Ragged Edge. Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience In the 1960s a wave of earthquakes brings destruction around the globe. Isolated off the British coast Matthew Cotter thinks that...
9 December 2013
White horse by Alex Adams
It is the end of the world as Zoe knows it. A mysterious plague came along, killed almost everyone. A small few survived, but were changed, mutated. Others were immune. But...
2 July 2012
Countdown by Mira Grant
A Newsflesh novella. In 2014 Dr Wells was on his way to curing cancer. Tests are progressing well. At the same time Dr. Kellis is working on a cure for the...
28 June 2012
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