Tag: #scifi
Captives of the Flame — Samuel R. Delany
The Towers of Toron — Samuel R. Delany
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
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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.