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The Great Series Read Project

By John Folk-Williams

Great Series Read Project

I’ve belatedly decided to join a group of bloggers, led by Caitlin at Realms of My Mind, for the Great Series Read Project, including Jason at Off the TBR, Lisa at Dear Geek Place, Imyril at There’s Always Room for One More, Susy at Susy’s Cozy World, among other brave souls. So I am posting […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project Tagged With: science fiction series

The Listeners by James Gunn

By John Folk-Williams

The Listeners by James Gunn

Picking out a message among innumerable signals or “voices” is the work of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and it’s the theme of James Gunn’s The Listeners. This is a first contact story from 1972 that Carl Sagan credited as one of the most influential in helping to launch SETI on an international scale. […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: alien civilizations, first contact, James Gunn, religion, science, seti, The Listeners

Nexhuman by Francesco Verso

By John Folk-Williams

Nexhuman by Francesco Verso

Nexhuman by Francesco Verso brilliantly blends the story of a young man’s obsessive love for a transhuman being with a vivid depiction of a consumerist society strangling on its own trash. Skillfully translated by Sally McCorry, the novel poses powerful questions about what it means to be human. We see this world through the eyes […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Francesco Verso, Frankenstein, immortality, love, Nexhuman, society, transhuman

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