Tag Archives: science fiction

Interesting article on the future of science fiction

By Anysia | November 28, 2008

I was looking over the other half’s shoulder last night as he was reading and noticed that the issue of NewScientist in question had a special report on the future of science fiction. Since I didn’t want to wait to read it (I actually have about 6 months worth of NewScientist issues to read at [...]

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I, robot by Howard S. Smith (Review)

By Anysia | September 16, 2008

Released July 2008 (Robot Binaries & Press) * 408 pages * ISBN 13: 9781894689069
I, robot by Howard S. Smith tells the story of Suzuki Haruto, a Japanese police inspector, who stumbles onto a plot between Japan and Israel to exchange nuclear weapons for robot soldiers.
There is a lot of technical information in I, robot. In [...]

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Review)

By Anysia | September 4, 2008

Released March 2005 * 272 pages * ISBN 13: 9780676977103
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a difficult book to review. I picked it up because the premise was revealed in another review, and I found the premise intriguing. I was disappointed to find that the premise isn’t really the focus of the story [...]

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Free Book Downloads-Part 6

By Anysia | August 4, 2008

Another Monday, another book. Kindle readers get another free book courtesy of Amazon and the rest of us meet an author who has always given his ebook editions away and is very vocal about the practice.

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Hal Spacejock Download

By Anysia | June 2, 2008

I wanted to read the ARC of the latest Hal Spacejock but it was only available to people in the UK on LibraryThing. A helpful LibraryThinger (-ee?) was kind enough to point out that the publisher is allowing the first book in the series to be downloaded for free.
Happy reading! It’ll be a while before [...]

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