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Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

By John Folk-Williams

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds is a masterful surprise in this author’s work, and I found myself reading it straight through. Instead of opening in one of Reynolds’ future worlds, the action starts on a sailing vessel, the Demeter, in a stormy sea off the coast of Norway in either the late 18th or early 19th […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFi Mystery-Thriller Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, artificial intelligence, human emotion, memory, sentient beings, ships, technology, time

The Bone Ship’s Wake by R. J. Barker – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Bone Ship's Wake

The first two books of R. J. Barker’s The Tide Child trilogy (The Bone Ships and Call of the Bone Ships) blew me away with a sustained level of sheer excitement, inventive detail of a sea-faring world of two archipelagos, a great set of characters and incredible staging of naval battles. These books brought me […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: adventure, battle strategy, conscience, fantasy, redemption, ships

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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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