Blogs about Science fiction books

Happy Sci-fi Dolphin Saturday! Here’s Cassie morphing into one for David B Mattingly’s 1996 cover to “Animorphs #4: The Message” by K. A. Applegate. Check out his site over here.

(On vacation this month, hence lack of blogging ...) Apparently archaeologists have discovered the eearliest known wooden structure in Kalambo Falls, Zambia: two cut logs bearing tool marks that were shaped and joined to form …

Gamera review index The second animated kaiju series currently on Netflix is GAMERA -Rebirth- (Gamera Ribāsu), the first released Gamera production since Gamera the Brave in 2006. It’s produced by ENGI, an animation subsidiary of …

Who was Francis Donovan? He has exactly one story listed in ISFDB, this one, “The Short Life.” That story first appeared in the October 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It was reprinted in three …

On Saturday I’ll be at the Cosmia Festival in Huddersfield. I have a talk about my recent and current books (4:45pm to 5:45pm), and from 7pm to 8:15pm I'll be talking about Iain M. Banks …

Over in Every, I wrote about how writing is more than a method for capturing ideas, it’s a way of exploring them: By externalizing your thoughts, writing puts you into conversation with yourself. It’s always …

by Gideon Marcus Sputnik all over again? Last week, the Soviets produced their latest space spectacular, potentially leaving America in the dust again. Zond 5, launched September 14, was sent around the moon, returning safely …

Success as a science fiction author didn’t come out of nowhere for Wole Talabi. The Nigerian-born author’s byline has been appearing regularly in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, and the Magazine of …

E. G. Condé, Sordidez, Stelliform Press, 2023. Sordidez is a near-future novel, tangling the fate of three indigenous characters of Central America and the Caribbean, as they are confronted to climate catastrophes and colonisation. Vero …

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Munchie of the Munchie and The Bearman podcast invited me back to the show, and then contended manfully with technical issues and my penchant for interrupting and talking over people. Amid the chaos he managed …

My rough start to the semester proves hard to dispel. I’ll get back to my regular programming soon–I promise. In the meantime, I’ve collected some goodies! Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? …

Where we learn that cheating is behaving stupidly while believing oneself to be clever. On his last night on Earth, Ted Graham stepped out of a glass-walled telephone booth, ducked to avoid a swooping moth …

While last week’s episode of The Wheel of Time was my least favorite of the show so far, this week’s episode is in contention for favorite to date. Though a little bit hampered by the …

Before Antonio Banderas put his accent on the character, perhaps the most internationally renowned version of Puss 'n Boots was the animated character from Toei studios. So popular was little Pero and the three films …

News has sadly broken of the death of Irish-British actor Michael Gambon at the age of 82. Gambon had a long and distinguished career, and is best-known for his work with Dennis Potter on The …