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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: alien minds, alternative selves, consciousness, first contact, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

Understanding the Alien in Eden by Stanisław Lem

By John Folk-Williams

Understanding the Alien in Eden by Stanislaw Lem

Is understanding the alien even possible for the human mind? That is the question posed by Stanisław Lem‘s Eden, a 1958 novel translated by Marc E. Heine for publication in English in 1989. And has anyone ever had a more exuberant imagination than this great Polish writer in presenting baffling alien civilizations for humans to […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction in Translation, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, alien minds, first contact, human, spaceships, Stanisław Lem

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 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

The Contact Paradox – Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

By John Folk-Williams

Keith Cooper’s The Contact Paradox is a brilliant probing of the motives and technologies behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). If you’re like me, you might know that SETI has been going on for sixty years and that no signals have turned up pointing to an advanced civilization. And not much more. You probably […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: alien civilizations, astrobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence, first contact, radio astronomy, seti

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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

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Fails for me too. "By all the criteria by which I personally judge a book, it failed and yet the fact remains that it has never been out of print in the sixty years since it first hit the market." Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein https://bookforager.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/stranger-in-a-strange-land-by-robert-a-heinlein/ via @bkfrgr

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Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas https://www.quantamagazine.org/supercomputer-simulations-reveal-the-power-inside-a-supernova-20210121/ via @QuantaMagazine

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4 of 5 stars to The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=3759461130

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Much to think about in this overview of Le Guin's work: It’s not Jung’s, it’s mine https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/colin-burrow/it-s-not-jung-s-it-s-mine

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Reading "propulsive intrigue-thriller-disaster format, detailed and textured and specific enough that its progress can be mapped onto contemporary Honolulu" Russell Letson Reviews <b>Pacific Storm</b> by Linda Nagata https://locusmag.com/2021/01/russell-letson-reviews-pacific-storm-by-linda-nagata/ via @locusmag

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