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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick asks a basic question that is all the more pressing today. What’s the difference between a human being and an android? Dick goes beyond the current debate about the potential replacement of humans by robotic software to produce creative works we feel should only […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: androids, human emotion, identity, Philip K. Dick, religion, ruined earth

Dark Theory by Wick Welker

By John Folk-Williams

Dark Theory by Wick Welker

Wick Welker’s Dark Theory (the first volume of a series called Dark Law) poses basic questions about what it means to be human in a far-future poisoned world. The story begins in a junkyard where people have to scavenge the means of survival. Two young women, the generous-hearted Lucindi and the hardened and cynical Miree, […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, artificial intelligence, city, consciousness, cyborg, friendship, identity, memory, power, robots, ruined earth

Amazing Cities in Science Fiction – 2

By John Folk-Williams

Terminal World - Cities in Science Fiction

Cities in science fiction stories often go well beyond the background of action. They set conditions that powerfully influence the choices characters have in their lives and the way they think about themselves. The four cities I’m highlighting in this post not only shape the lives of their inhabitants but also stand out as great […]

Filed Under: SFF Cities Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, Becky Chambers, China Miéville, city, dystopia, ruined earth, society, technology, William Gibson

The Pastel City, a Novel of Viriconium by M. John Harrison – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

A Storm of Wings Viriconium

The Pastel City (1971) is the first story by M. John Harrison in his Viriconium fantasy sequence. This short novel drew me in immediately with its luminous prose and its ability to depict a world in ruins and a world of hope with just a few brilliant visual strokes. Though it begins with a prologue […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: alien minds, dead civilization, empire, M. John Harrison, power, reality, ruined earth, time, Viriconium

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Notes from the Burning Age

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North is both an exciting story of spies and traitors in a post-apocalyptic Europe and a powerful study of trauma and belief. It is, above all, the story of Ven Marzouki, who survived a traumatic childhood when he witnessed the great burning of the old civilization and the […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Taking on My SciFi TBR Tagged With: exploitation, faith, nature, post-apocalytic, religion, ruined earth, spies

The Dystopian Lawyer Series by Christopher Brown

By John Folk-Williams

Failed State Dystopian Lawyer Book 2

Christopher Brown’s two-book set (Rule of Capture and Failed State) about his hapless yet strangely effective dystopian lawyer, Donnie Kimoe, may come too close to our dystopian present for comfort, but they also shine with ideas about a better way to envision the future. As he put it in a recent essay in Literary Hub: […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: Christopher Brown, dystopia, dystopian lawyer, hopeful future, law, power, ruined earth

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