Tiny Planet (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Dark Roasted Blend has a nice review up of Alfred Bester’s The Computer Connection as part of the site’s look at some classic science fiction. I haven’t read that novel yet, but The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination (originally called Tiger! Tiger! after the William Blake poem) are among my favourite books. Although they [...]
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
We try to highlight the most entertaining and rewarding science fiction and fantasy, with emphasis on memorable reader experience, not necessarily general acceptance by the critics. Have fun! Most reviews were written by Avi Abrams, ...
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Harry Harrison, creator of The Stainless Steel Rat and author of the novel that inspired the movie Soylent Green, will be honoured as the next Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America during the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles, California. The selection of Harrison was announced by [...]
Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Here's a thought I got via Alfred Bester: The essential element in theatre is the audience. I suppose this pretty much applies across the arts. If you think about it, you can take away pretty much anything else, but not the audience. Even the players: an animated movie is "theatre" without players. But even if somebody is just creating for himself, then he has an audience. Of course a creator should...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Jamie Bell was interviewed on Jonathan Ross's show on Friday night and he talked about Jumper. At one point he explained that they had a discussion with the director (or was it writer?) about the rules of jumping. He proceeded...
skullring.org (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Maybe it's just me but the premise for the upcoming film "Jumper" seems a lot like one of the central facets of the classic science fiction novel "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. First the plot of Jumper : A genetic abnormality allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
I finally got around to reading the article Why do critics still sneer at sci-fi? in the Guardian. It's interesting. For a start it's not a slamming of SF without any thought, the author of the post Sam Jordison actually...
Adventures in the SF trade (Free subscription) | 29/10/2007
A few months ago, I published a list of my favourite short story collections and a list of my favourite individual short stories . And now, I present a list of my favourite SF novels, in the hope it will go some way to answering the question: " which SF writers have most influenced your work? " Nova by Samuel Delany Neuromancer by William Gibson Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan Nova Swing by M John...
