Solarpunk in the streets, lunarpunk in the sheets.
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Eleven Minutes (Portuguese: Onze Minutos) is a 2003 novel by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho that …
Words of wisdom about our universal yearning for love, as well as our drive to fulfil that yearning in the form of its physical manifestation.
Clear-eyed and thought-provoking exploration of our quest to discover and understand the fundamental physical constants of our universe (and an infinity of possible others).
The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four sciences: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing …
Highly thought-provoking in the way of Golden Age sf, but with flashes of postmodern literary brilliance.
A highly imaginative fever dream in the long, hot afternoon of the world.
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- a writer so original he …
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life …
A spellbinding paean to the magic of the written word.
A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the …
I would have liked to like this book more than I did, but the protagonist and his 'friends' are so toxic that the thought of them contaminating not just Fillory but actual Narnia (or any other of a thousand cherished portal-accessible worlds) with the consequences of their narcissism and emotional pollution puts me on edge. Nevertheless, it is competently written and the worldbuilding (especially that of the Neitherlands, which may or may not be C. S. Lewis's Wood between the Worlds paved over) seems better thought out than that of J. K. Rowling's Potterverse, which this is more or less the grownup version of. I do commend Grossman for exploring the question of what kind of people an elite magical academy would turn out in real life, in an adult setting. That said, adult does not have to mean unlikeable, but then again, given the kind of adults that elite …
I would have liked to like this book more than I did, but the protagonist and his 'friends' are so toxic that the thought of them contaminating not just Fillory but actual Narnia (or any other of a thousand cherished portal-accessible worlds) with the consequences of their narcissism and emotional pollution puts me on edge. Nevertheless, it is competently written and the worldbuilding (especially that of the Neitherlands, which may or may not be C. S. Lewis's Wood between the Worlds paved over) seems better thought out than that of J. K. Rowling's Potterverse, which this is more or less the grownup version of. I do commend Grossman for exploring the question of what kind of people an elite magical academy would turn out in real life, in an adult setting. That said, adult does not have to mean unlikeable, but then again, given the kind of adults that elite mundane academies turn out in real life, maybe this comes uncomfortably close to the truth.
Very well-done fable of power and gender that should force you to re-examine every single hierarchical structure that we take for granted. Social fiction on par with Atwood and LeGuin, and especially takes a page from the former in that, if any aspect of the story seems particularly far-fetched, one should keep in mind that this is happening right now.
Fun if derivative bit of geeksploitation, something along the lines of a Lovecraftian Ready Player One but made slightly better by a hint of Rosicrucian intrigue.
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a …
Provocative, if dated. The book's weak point is that Bradbury implicitly assumes small-town Americana and its values to be humanity's default expression, but its strong point is its bravery in challenging those values.
En el año 2002, el estudio central de la Cadena SER se transformó en la nave del misterio. Con la …
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human …
Sheree Renée Thomas: Dark Matter (2014, Grand Central Publishing)
Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The …
