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Strange Encounters – 3 Science Books for SFF Readers

By John Folk-Williams

Under Alien Skies - Strange Encounters

Strange encounters with alien places and intelligences are the staple of science fiction and fantasy, yet it’s not only in fiction where these can be explored. Many recent popular science books look with great sensitivity and imagination at forms of intelligence on Earth that have been overlooked in the past and at the real environments, […]

Filed Under: Science and Related Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: alien life forms, black holes, consciousness, forests, galaxy, memory, octopus, Peter Wohlleben, Philip Plait, spaceships, Sy Montgomery

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

By John Folk-Williams

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Set primarily in an alternative version of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, Kelly Barnhill’s magnificent When Women Were Dragons tells many stories. There is the story of the mass dragoning of April 25, 1955, when over 642,987 mothers and wives stepped out of their human skins to live as dragons, and of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: dragons, family, human emotion, Kelly Barnhill, liberation, memory, oppression, sapphic love

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

I had intended to write about a new science fiction novel this week, but that turned out to be a disappointment. So I’m eagerly diving into Nine Princes in Amber, the first book in Roger Zelazny‘s epic 10 volume fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber. This rounds out my contribution to the great not-a-challenge of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: battle strategy, epic fantasy, family, imagination, memory, multiple worlds, power, Roger Zelazny, time travel

Neuromancer by William Gibson – A Review for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Like any great novel that does something really new, William Gibson’s Neuromancer, can be hard to get into. And it still feels new, at least to me, almost forty years after its publication, despite the fact that cyberpunk has become so common a sub-genre. Neuromancer is so uniquely itself that it’s hard to make the […]

Filed Under: Cyberpunk, Great Series Read Project, SciFiMonth Tagged With: addiction, artificial intelligence, clones, cyberspace, future, memory, virtual reality, William Gibson

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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