• Blog
  • About
  • Stories of Elektra
  • Great Series Read Project
  • Archive

SciFi Mind

Visions of Future Worlds

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Goodreads
  • Mastodon
You are here: Home / 2020 / Archives for May 2020

Archives for May 2020

Comet Weather by Liz Williams: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Comet Weather by Liz Williams

I guess I’m a bit late to join the Wyrd & Wonder group, but Liz Williams’ beautiful fantasy, Comet Weather, has won me over completely from my hard edged science fictional ways. Sad to think, I never would have known about Liz Williams, or discovered this latest novels of hers, if Alastair Reynolds hadn’t mentioned […]

Filed Under: Parallel World Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: comet, Comet Weather, cosmic forces, England, Liz Williams, spirits, star

The Book of Strange New Things: The Alien Language of Human Connection

By John Folk-Williams

Alien Language of Human Emotion The Book of Strange New Things

There is a powerful moment in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things, when Peter Leigh, transported across light years to minister to a alien congregation on the planet Oasis, delivers a moving eulogy about a man he has hardly known. The scene captures Peter’s ability to get to the core of the life […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: alien, alien language, human emotion, Michel Faber, space colonies

Purpose and Redemption in the Embers of War Series by Gareth L. Powell

By John Folk-Williams

Embers of War Series Purpose and Redemption

It’s no wonder that, in the vastness of space and amid the destruction of planets and whole populations, finding purpose and redemption for past misdeeds should preoccupy so many rootless characters in Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War series. With his considerable talent Powell combines space opera action with these deeper shades of meaning. It’s […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera Tagged With: artificial intelligence, memory, purpose, redemption, robotic spaceships, sentient beings, space opera

Red Desert Series by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Red Desert Point of No Return by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli’s Red Desert four-part series reads like a single captivating novel with a fascinating character named Anna Persson at its core. She’s an exobiologist sent on a mission to colonize Mars, yet her impulsive, angry, headstrong nature breaks the psychological mold of an astronaut and plunges her into one difficult situation after […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: alien minds, first contact, Mars, space colonies

The Quantum Evolution by Derek Künsken: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Quantum Magician Book 1 of the Quantum Evolution by Derek Kunsken

Derek Künsken’s series, The Quantum Evolution, so far consisting of two novels (The Quantum Magician and The Quantum Garden) is a brilliant space opera that probes the depths of a future human nature engineered to produce new subspecies. And they are wild, at times repulsive, at times capable of incredible breakthroughs in knowledge or massive […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, Derek Kunsken, genetic engineering, quantum reaility, space opera, The Quantum Evolution, time travel, wormholes

Subscribe to SciFi Mind Posts



About SciFi Mind

nebula SciFiMind

Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

Search SciFi Mind

Recent Posts

  • She Who KnowsShe Who Knows and One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor #Wyrd&Wonder
  • Lake of Darkness by Adam RobertsLake of Darkness by Adam Roberts
  • Death of the AuthorDeath of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Dissolution by Nicholas BingeDissolution by Nicholas Binge
  • The Fifth Head of CerberusThe Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
  • The Sentence by Gautam BhatiaThe Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

Categories

© 2025 Copyright by John Folk-Williams · Dynamik-Gen On Genesis Framework