The sequel to Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Alif The Unseen
“if you can’t pay with things, you could pay with skills,” said Sakina, motioning to the shadow. “Well, wait a minute,” said Alif, looking from the shadow to Sakina. “My skills are more or less limited to computers… I’m not sure how much help that is to an, ah, to a…” Effrit, said the shadow. I’m an effrit. And I’ve got a two-year-old Dell desktop in the back that’s had some kind of virus for ages. The screen goes black five minutes after I […]
February Sci Fi
So I’m not much (ever) a sci fi reader, but this year I promised the boyfriend that if he (physicist book worm that he is) picked one out a month I would read them, and give his genre a shot (don’t worry I’m doing the same back for him: historical fiction). So I read a Heinlein in January, and my first Asimov this February: The Caves of Steel. This is the story of Lije (Elijah) Baley, a plain-clothes cop in a future of earth where […]
On Myth and Mayhem (A Robert #CBR6 Review)
Call Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey Chuck Palahniuk’s sci-fi epidemic kind-of but not really zombie novel about folklore and the creation of mythical figures. No, really. That’s the best line I can come up with to explain what, exactly, Rant is supposed to be. People are interviewed about Buster “Rant” Casey, a ne’re-do-well country boy who packs up his things at 18 (including millions in stolen gold coins) and brings a small town epidemic to the big city. Or, it’s the novel about […]
Not Judging the Book by its Author
I wasn’t very excited about reading Ender’s Game (1977) by Orson Scott Card. Nothing in the cover appealed to me. The only thing I knew about it is that it had something to do with turning boys into soldiers and that the author is apparently homophobic. But I’d also heard it was an award-winning classic. The recently released movie and the fact that even my little brother had read it was beginning to make me feel left out. So I decided to check it out […]
“Mutiny on the Enterprise”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #26
by Robert E. Vardeman “Zarv’s entire family had been killed by the Romulans in a brief incursion years before. His hatred for them and all they stood for transcended mere duty; it took on personal overtones.” This is a direct sequel to Mr. Vardeman’s “The Klingon Gambit,” and it is just as wretched, ridiculous, and poorly-written as its predecessor. Even though Enterprise and her crew are in desperate need of repairs and rest after their last mission, they are given a trio of ambassadors and […]
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