A Natural history of Dragons by Marie Brennan
A memoir by Lady Trent Lady Trent, as all know, is the world’s pre-eminent dragon naturalist. This is her story of how she became that world renowned scientist, how her interest...
2 December 2013
Beasts of the walking city by Del Law
Book one in the Walking Cities series Blackwell is a Hugliev, a once powerful race that have been hunted to the brink of extinction across all known worlds. Often they are...
2 September 2013
Warhorse by Timothy Zahn
For years humans had thought themselves alone in space. But then the Tampies made themselves known. And they, unlike humanity, had the ability to jump through space. Where humans were trapped...
16 May 2013
On a red station, drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Ever since she arrived on Prosper Station Quyen has been welcomed by the Honoured Ancestress, the artificial intelligence that runs the station. Now that her husband has been called away to...
21 April 2013
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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...
23 September 2012
The Martian Chronicles [essay] by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury once said that he didn’t write science fiction. Science fiction is about the possible; he wrote fantasy. Events in his books “couldn’t happen.” [1] An argument could be made...
21 September 2012
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
First published in serial form in the 1950s The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that together tell the story of humanity colonising Mars. Almost all the stories are...
17 September 2012
John Carter [based on the book by] by Edgar Rice Burroughs dir. by Andrew Stanton
In the 1880s a young Edgar Rice Burroughs is summoned to his uncle’s home. But when he reaches it he discovers that John Carter is already dead and the body is...
17 September 2012
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Read it online Imagine a world without men. A world where women are able to reproduce without men, where the only children born are female, and where motherhood is all important....
10 September 2012
A princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book 1 in the Barsoom series In post-Civil War Arizona John Carter has found a gold rich mine. His partner sets out to buy machinery to let them work it properly,...
8 September 2012
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,...
1 September 2012
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Read/Download for free from The University of Adelaide Read for Coursera Sci-Fi course & for RIP VII After his death the nephew of a Mr. Edward Prendick found a strange account...
26 August 2012
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