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Review: <em>Riddley Walker</em> by Russell Hoban

Riddley Walker is a unique, fascinating book. It takes places a few thousand years after a nuclear Armageddon in England…

9 years ago

Review: <em>To Say Nothing of the Dog</em> by Connie Willis

To Say Nothing of the Dog is one of the funniest science fiction books I've ever read. It isn't a…

9 years ago

Review: <em>Pushing Ice</em> by Alastair Reynolds

In Pushing Ice, one of Saturn’s moons suddenly departs from its orbit and shoots off into deep space. The only…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Mooncop</em> by Tom Gauld

Mooncop is an oddly beautiful piece of work about the last policeman on the moon. Short and simply drawn, it's…

10 years ago

Review: <em>A Darkling Sea</em> by James L. Cambias

As a lapsed marine zoologist, I couldn’t help but love A Darkling Sea. It has aliens, intrigue, desperate missions, and…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Accelerando</em> by Charles Stross

Accelerando moves like a bat out of hell and made me afraid that the future’s going to tear us all…

10 years ago

Review: <em>The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown</em> by Nicholas Ponticello

Like his earlier book Do Not Resuscitate, Ponticello’s prose reads like a less-angry Vonnegut. However, in The Maiden Voyage of…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Flowers for Algernon</em> by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon is a beautiful, human book, with a little science fiction thrown in. It examines morals and ethics…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Memoirs Found in a Bathtub</em> by Stanislaw Lem

If, before sitting down to write 1984, George Orwell had decided to candy-flip (ingest LSD and ecstasy simultaneously), he might…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Panda Ray</em> by Michael Kandel

Panda Ray is a rare beast: a fun and weird adventure for kids where there is no Chosen One. Thank…

10 years ago