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
Tag Archives: Not Just For Stormtroopers: Sci-Fi Challenge
1 September 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: 1890s, C19th, England, spring, village
7 Stars
13 Comments
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, a stranger appears. He takes a room at the … Continue reading
8 March 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: Britain, Britain - 1950s
9 Stars
2 Comments
The death of grass by John Christopher
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge It is the 1950s, and a devastating virus is sweeping Asia. It attacks grass, and grass feeds the world. Wheat is grass. And cows, sheep, etc all live on grass. At … Continue reading
Wool series, 2 – 5 by Hugh Howey
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
Wool by Hugh Howey
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
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
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
9 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: South Africa
9 Stars
6 Comments
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. Zinzi December finds lost things. That’s her shavi, the gift she received, along with her Sloth, for her crime. No one really knows where the … Continue reading