Category: Sci-fi
City of a Thousand Suns — Samuel R. Delany
The Jewels of Aptor — Samuel R. Delany
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Vol 13 — Anthology
All stories copyright 2018.
Introduction — Jonathan Strahan
Mother Tongues — S. Qiouyi Lu
Olivia’s Table — Alyssa Wong
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington — P. Djèlí Clark
Yard Dog — Tade Thompson
The Woman Who Destroyed Us — S. L. Huang
The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto — Annalee Newitz
The Starship and the Temple Cat — Yoon Ha Lee
A Brief and Fearful Star — Carmen Maria Machado
Field Biology of the Wee Fairies — Naomi Kritzer
Intervention — Kelly Robson
The Bookcase Expedition — Jeffrey Ford
A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix E. Harrow
The Staff in the Stone — Garth Nix
Okay, Glory — Elizabeth Bear
Widdam — Vandana Singh
Dreadful Young Ladies — Kelly Barnhill
The Only Harmless Great Thing — Brooke Bolander
The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society — T. Kingfisher
When We Were Starless — Simone Heller
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again — Zen Cho
Blessings — Naomi Novik
Meat and Salt and Sparks — Rich Larson
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth — Daryl Gregory
Golgotha — Dave Hutchinson
Flint and Mirror — John Crowley
An Agent of Utopia — Andy Duncan
You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You — Maria Dahvana Headley
Quality Time — Ken Liu
The Storyteller’s Replacement — N. K. Jemisin
Firelight — Ursula K. Le Guin
#scifi #fantasy #pdjeliclark #naominovik #kenliu #ursulakleguin
Stability — Philip K. Dick
My aim is to read all of Philip’s books in order, not all at once, but occasionally when i feel the urge to have my head done in a little bit. And this, my blog/review readers, is Philip’s very first.
While it’s only a little short story, it quite an entertaining one set in a dystopian future with a time machine screwing with people’s heads.
A great beginning to a great writer’s bibliography.
Available in The Collected Stories: Volume 1.
Philip’s Page
#scifi #philipkdick
Private Universe — Seth Rain
And so we finally come to the end of this rather enjoyable series.
It’s been pretty much full gas all the way and all the way through you really don’t get much of an idea who is on whose side and what their actual agendas really are until they suddenly reveal themselves and off we go again in a completely new direction. It’s certainly been an interesting roller coaster ride.
And what a lovely ending, Seth isn’t afraid to kill lots of people that we like along with the ones we don’t: which we always like, don’t we?
I’m certainly looking forward to reading more from Seth in the future. 10 out of 10.
Seth’s Page
#scifi #cyberpunk #sethrain
Nova Igniter — Joseph R. Lallo
Yet another good read in the Big Sigma series.
I did feel, however, that this one just fell a little short of the usual fun and shenanigans that we’re used to in this series, and the temporal stuff was a little mind bending at times (but then temporal stuff usually is). All in all, it felt like a bit of an inbetweeny while we wait for an update on Lex’s love life and racing career. Still a good read though, and we’ve now ended up with yet another version of Ma permanently in existence: which can’t be all bad.
Roll on the next episode.
Joseph’s Page
#scifi #josephrlallo
Android State — Seth Rain
We begin immediately after the events of Messiah Online with Cardinal, having declared the UK an android state, telling all humans to leave the country or die.
Our protagonists, Blake (The Postman) and Lola, are determined to stop him, but how? Has Cardinal become too powerful?
Once again, super good stuff and it’ll keep you reading until the end and, like me, you’ll go jumping straight into the last book in the tetralogy, Private Universe.
Seth’s Page
#scifi #cyberpunk #sethrain
Complete Works of H. G. Wells — H. G. Wells
Novels
The Time Machine
The Wonderful Visit
The Island Of Doctor Moreau – 1896
The Wheels of Chance
The Invisible Man – 1897
The War of the Worlds – 1898
When the Sleeper Wakes
Love and Mr. Lewisham
The First Men In The Moon – 1901
The Sea Lady
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth – 1904
Kipps
A Modern Utopia
In the Days of the Comet
The War in the Air
Tono-Bungay
Ann Veronica
The History of Mr. Polly
The Sleeper Awakes
The New Machiavelli
Marriage
The Passionate Friends
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The World Set Free
Bealby: A Holiday
Boon
The Research Magnificent
Mr. Britling Sees it Through
The Soul of a Bishop
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education
The Undying Fire
The Secret Places of the Heart
Men Like Gods
The Dream
Christina Alberta’s Father
The World of William Clissold
Meanwhile
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
The Autrocracy of Mr. Parham
The Bulpington of Blup
The Shape Of Things To Come – 1933
The Croquet Player
Brynhild
Star Begotten
The Camford Visitation
Apropos of Dolores
The Brothers
The Holy Terror
Babes in the Darkling Wood
All Aboard for Ararat
You Can’t Be Too Careful
The Short Story Collections
The Early Short Stories
Select Conversations with an Uncle
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
The Plattner Story and Others
Tale of Space and Time
Twelve Stories and a Dream
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
Uncollected Short Stories
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
Selected Non-Fiction
Text-Book of Biology
Certain Personal Matters
Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought
The Discovery of the Future
Preface to “Underground man by Gabriel Tarde”
Mankind in the Making
The Future in America
This Misery of Boots
New Worlds for Old
First and Last Things
Floor Games
Little Wars
The War That Will End War
An Englishman Looks at the World
What is Coming
The Elements of Reconstruction
Introduction to “Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton”
Introduction to “The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger”
God the Invisible King
War and the Future
In the Fourth Year
The Idea of a League of Nations
The Outline of History
Russia in the Shadows
The Salvaging of Civilizatin
A Short History of the World
Washington and the Hope of Peace
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
A Year of Prophesying
Mr Belloc Objects to “The Outline of History”
The open Conspiracy
World Brain
The Fate of Homo Sapiens
The New World Order
The Common Sense of War and Peace
Crux Ansata
Marxism vs. Liberalism
The Criticism
H. G. Wells by J. D. Beresford
The Autobiography
Experiment in Autobiography
H. G. Wells’s Page
#delphicompleteworks #scifi #steampunk #hgwells
Messiah Online — Seth Rain
And so we continue where we left of with Spectrum Worlds, the pacing doesn’t slow down at all and The Postman still has no idea who to trust and, even as a reader with my god like view of things, i still have no idea who is being honest and what their real agendas are in these books: which is what makes them so good. Eventually things will come out in the wash and we’ll find out who is really pulling whose strings.
If you enjoyed the first book, you’ll enjoy this just as much.
But, between this and the last book in the series, there’s the penultimate book, Android State, which begins with all humans being told that they’ve got about 3 weeks to all get out of the United Kingdom or they’ll be killed on sight: should be fun.