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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

By John Folk-Williams

Death of the Author

Death of the Author marks the second time (the first being Who Fears Death) Nnedi Okorafor has led me through a reading experience that felt interesting but not overwhelming only to deliver an ending section that made me wonder how she does it. For that ending delivers a powerful impact that changes my view of […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: artificial intelligence, family, identity, imagination, love, Nnedi Okorafor, robots, story-telling

Future’s Edge by Gareth L. Powell, A Review for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Future's Edge by Gareth L. Powell

OK, I’m glad to be part of SciFi Month again, and I will get to my review of Gareth L. Powell’s Future’s Edge, but I have to say how hard it is to write anything in the wake of the US election. I guess you have to be a US citizen of strong liberal values […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth, Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, Gareth L. Powell, love, refugees, ruined earth, space exploration, spaceships

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I once read that most novel plots could be reduced to two great starting points: a stranger comes to town, and someone goes on a journey. In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s comic and thought-provoking Service Model, the one-time valet robot named Charles embarks on a journey to discover the source of a fatal error in his routines. […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, agency, artificial intelligence, free will, human survival, justice, library, robots

Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi

By John Folk-Williams

Convergence Problems

Wole Talabi, in his brilliant story collection Convergence Problems, offers an intriguing idea about how stories can be told. It contrasts sharply with the method made famous by James Joyce in Dubliners where characters reach a climactic moment of epiphany in which they grasp some great truth about themselves. That approach has been done to […]

Filed Under: International Speculative Fiction, Short Fiction Tagged With: Africanfuturism, artificial intelligence, capitalism, love, myth, purpose, story-telling, Wole Talabi

Blade – Inverted Frontier 4 by Linda Nagata

By John Folk-Williams

Blade Inverted Frontier 4

In previous novels of the Inverted Frontier series (Edges, Silver and Needle), Linda Nagata often posed the question of what it took to retain humanity in the face of alien power. In Blade Inverted Frontier 4 (out of a projected 5 volume series) she confronts as never before the potential of human destructiveness. Is it […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, fallen world, Linda Nagata, love, power, relationships, spaceships

Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds: A Prefect Dreyfus Novel

By John Folk-Williams

Machine Vendetta

Alastair Reynolds has produced a fine, fast-paced thriller in Machine Vendetta, the third, and apparently final novel in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies series. The series, set in the Revelation Space universe, specifically the Glitter Band of ten thousand habitats orbiting Yellowstone, began in 2007 with The Prefect, now called Aurora Rising. We had to wait […]

Filed Under: SciFi Mystery-Thriller, Space Opera Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, artificial intelligence, clones, memory, murder mystery, Revelation Space, spaceships

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