Posts Tagged ‘Sci-fi’
EP134: Me and My Shadow
Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews
Without question, Me and My Shadow the best episode of Escape Pod I’ve listened to in quite some time. It’s got just the perfect amount of creepiness to suck me into the story, rather than sending me running for cover. Additionally the level of tech seems entirely believable in that we could theoretically be doing […]
Tags: podcast, Reviews, Sci-fi
Escape Pod, for shame!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Reviews
As a general rule, I love Escape Pod. The stories (and readers!) tend to be excellent, however this week must be the exception which proves the rule. Maybe it’s because I never got into the whole MMORPG thing but I found this week’s story to be a bad rewrite/adaption of Groundhog Day. The movie wasn’t […]
Tags: fantasy, podcast, Reviews, Sci-fi
Which science fiction writer are you?
Posted by Mark | Filed under Quizzes
I am: Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs) A quiet and underrated master of “hard science” fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s. Which science fiction writer are you? Well, that’s a new way of finding different authors to read. I mean I’ve been reading sci-fi for practically as long as I’ve known […]
Review: The Android’s Dream
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi My Rating: 5 out of 5. This book is a delightfully wacky tale of one man’s fight to keep a very special sheep alive. In the process, our hero will have to fight off various aliens and a few treacherous villainous humans. Scattered throughout The Android’s Dream are numerous one […]
Tags: Books, humour, Reviews, Scalzi, Sci-fi
50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life
This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953–2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved. 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien* 2. The […]
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