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Border City: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Lavie Tidhar creates a border city, a liminal place in Central Station that captures in great human depth a future world of interwoven nationalities, identities, destinies and lives. The city around Central Station, a vast spaceport in what was once called Israel or Palestine between the Arab and Jewish areas is one of many blended […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: augmented reality, borders, Central Station, city, consciousness, Lavie Tidhar, love, relationships, spaceport, uploaded minds

City in Time: Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Redemption

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Tade Thompson begins Rosewater Redemption, the concluding volume of his Wormwood trilogy, with a kind of fugue, an almost musical prelude in which the major characters re-enter the story, each changed by what has gone before. We see Rosewater in all its multiplicity, through the eyes of each character, as a city in time, experienced […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, alternative selves, city, consciousness, memory, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, time

Alien Cells in Mind: Rosewater by Tade Thompson

By John Folk-Williams

Alien Cells in Mind Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson, a psychiatrist who is also a prolific writer, has created an original interpretation of a classic science fiction theme in his Rosewater, the opening novel in the Wormwood trilogy – that of first contact on earth as alien cells enter human minds across the world. An alien mass hits the earth in Hyde […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, alternative selves, consciousness, first contact, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

Pushing the Boundaries of Mind: Science Books for SFF Readers – 3

By John Folk-Williams

Neuroscience - boundaries of mind

One of the reasons I’m drawn to science fiction is to see how writers explore boundaries of mind and consciousness. I mean not just the sort of psychic powers that were popular to write about 40 or 50 years ago (or superheroes today) but testing the limits of human consciousness. While sff fiction uses standard […]

Filed Under: Science and Related Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: artificial intelligence, brain, consciousness, memory, mind, neuroscience, psychedelics, science fiction movies

Science Books for Science Fiction Readers – 2

By John Folk-Williams

Hiroshima Diary science books for science fiction readers

This second post in my series of science books for science fiction readers moves from the inner space of the human mind to ideas of expanding human life across the galaxy. From Kip Thorne’s astrophysics and Antonio Damasio’s neurobiology to Freeman Dyson’s essays on space and the diary of a doctor in the aftermath of […]

Filed Under: Science and Related Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: Antonio Damasio, apocalypse, black holes, consciousness, Freeman Dyson, Hiroshima, Kip Thorne, radiation poisoning, relativity, space travel, time warps

Vintage Science Fiction Month – Destination: Void by Frank Herbert

By John Folk-Williams

Destination: Void by Frank Herbert

January is Vintage Sci-Fi Month, but I hate to think of vintage sci-fi as confined to only one part of the year. So I’ll be making reviews of vintage science fiction, like Destination: Void and earlier classics, a regular feature of this blog. Follow Vintage Sci-Fi Month on Twitter and get in on the fun, too! As I […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, clones, computer, consciousness, Frank Herbert, Mary Shelley, robotic spaceships, technology

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