During the past few days, a couple of interesting stories crossed my screen and they are so perfectly related to my current review that they simply must be referenced. First came the #LikeAGirl campaign from Always, encouraging us to turn that pejorative expression into a compliment. Then came this story from NPR about women writers in science fiction: Women are Destroying Science Fiction and That’s OK — They Created It. As I have just finished Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Dispossessed, I must say […]
Weirdly Good Comic
Target: China Miéville’s Dial H, Vol. 2: Exchange. Art by Alberto Ponticelli, David Lapham and Dan Green. Collecting issues #7-15 and Justice League issue #23.3 Profile: Comics, Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy When last we left Dial H, Miéville was busy adding weird fiction and horror tropes to a little known corner of the DC Universe. The events of the last volume have raised the stakes and opened the door to a multiverse of possibilities. Unfortunately, while Dial H was an incredible critical success, its sales numbers left something to be […]
Is Mankind Capable of Remaking Itself, asks Atwood
This final book in the trilogy offers a hopeful conclusion to Atwood’s frankly horrific depiction of our possible future. Maddaddam is the name of an action-oriented splitoff from the God’s Gardeners cult who—together with Crake’s bioengineered “children” who survived the so-called waterless flood that wiped most of humanity off the face of Earth—drive the action of this last book. While the Maddaddam survivors forage the ruins of their civilization for such things as tampons and flashlight batteries, they also learn how to raise a new […]
End of the World as Told by the Survivors
Unexpectedly, Atwood does not pick up in Year of the Flood where Oryx and Crake ended. Rather, she covers the same time-line as she did in her first novel, only this time she gives us a different viewpoint with which to greet the end of the world. In her first book, we learned that the world’s corporations had hired brilliant men—Crake among them—to bioengineer humanity in their own image—materialist, hedonistic, narcissistic. The profits have never been so good, the disparities between rich and poor never […]
Annihilating several hours of my time…
Annihilation – the first of a trilogy – is the tale of an expedition into the mysterious “Area X” . Something happened to Area X a while back – never explained, very vague. Exactly what or when and what’s wrong with “Area X” is never explained – at least not in this book. Perhaps in the other parts of the trilogy… Eleven expeditions have gone in to investigate Area X and …really no one has come back out or if they have, they […]
A fresh and surprisingly warm and human take on the zombie genre.
Zombies are everywhere. They’ve broken their way through the barricaded world of cult obsession and entered popular culture. Even Brad Pitt fights them. We’re practically suffering an outbreak of shambling clones and glassy-eyed cash-ins, and so it’s hard not to immediately bash anything new on the head with a cricket bat and ignore it. But every so often, something new will come along and spin it in a fresher direction. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Zombie Survival Guide, Handling the Undead, Warm Bodies, Patient […]
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