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Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny

Every January is Vintage Science Fiction Month, the not-a-challenge created by Andrea at the little red reviewer and Retro Rockets podcast as well as Red Star Reviews. It’s definitely one of my favorite scifi celebrations. The original idea was to comment on science fiction written before your birth year – but I believe “vintage” came […]

Filed Under: Space Opera, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, gods, multiple worlds, religion, revenge, Roger Zelazny, telepathy

Ringworld by Larry Niven – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Ringworld by Larry Niven

If you’re new, as I am, to Larry Niven’s Known Space world, you’ll find an astonishing amount of information online about this hugely influential series of novels and short stories. Ringworld (1970) was Niven’s first novel in the sequence. There are articles about all the characters, alien species, technologies and events of Known Space as […]

Filed Under: Space Opera, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: agency, alien life forms, alien technology, city, fallen world, Known Space, Larry Niven, religion, spaceships

Excession by Iain M. Banks – A Culture Novel

By John Folk-Williams

Excession by Iain M. Banks

Well, it’s a new year – and good wishes all around! After a mentally tired December when I wrote little, I relaxed while getting to know the work of Roger Zelazny – and re-reading Iain M. Banks’ Excession, the fifth of his Culture books. Some people suggest starting with other novels set in this universe […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, gender, Iain M. Banks, identity, spaceships, The Culture

Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds – # SciFiMonth Review

By John Folk-Williams

Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds

It may seem strange to pick the middle book of a trilogy for my rereading of Revelation Space (now called the Inhibitor Trilogy). But Alastair Reynolds’ Redemption Ark is a magnificent novel that stands mostly on its own and goes in depth into the major Conjoiner characters and the threat to humanity posed by the […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth, Space Opera Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, alien life forms, altered minds, redemption, Revelation Space, robots, spaceships, transhuman

Hidden Solace by Karl Drinkwater: A #SciFiMonth Review

By John Folk-Williams

Hidden Solace by Karl Drinkwater

Karl Drinkwater’s Hidden Solace is the third volume of the projected five-novel space opera Lost Solace series. Like its predecessors, Hidden Solace, transforms a familiar scifi trope (here, the prisoner trying to escape from an impossibly isolated and well-defended structure) into something exciting and new. The writing is riveting and intense and kept me going […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, SciFiMonth, Space Opera Tagged With: alien technology, artificial intelligence, freedom, Karl Drinkwater, memory, power, robotic spaceships, sentient beings

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By now, I just accept the fact that Adrian Tchaikovsky can write about anything in SFF and do it brilliantly. Children of Memory, which follows the award-winning Children of Time and Children of Ruin, continues this great saga of human evolution and species uplift in multiple star systems. There is a moving and exciting story […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, SciFiMonth, Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, human survival, identity, memory, sentient beings, space colonies, terraforming

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