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Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov: A Re-Reading for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Second Foundation

To finish up my re-reading of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation trilogy, this week I’m looking at his Second Foundation. The novel, published in this form in 1953, is a reprinting of two novellas published in Astounding magazine in 1948-50. This third novel may not have quite the dramatic impact of The Mule (in Foundation and […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth, Space Opera, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: altered minds, consciousness, future history, galactic empires, Isaac Asimov, power, psychic powers, spaceships

The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August

By John Folk-Williams

The Last Gifts of the Universe

The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August is the winner of the second Self Published Science Fiction Competition, and it’s easy to see why it came out ahead of the hundreds of other novels. But before I get into my review, I’d like to say how grateful I am that SPSFC exists. Without […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Space Opera Tagged With: adventure, alien civilizations, alien life forms, family, loss, love, spaceships

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

Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

Lords of Uncreation

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Lords of Uncreation is the third and final volume of the Final Architecture series, including Shards of Earth and Eyes of the Void. What draws me most to this series are the amazing descriptions of the encounters of the Intermediary Idris Telemmier with the creatures of unspace, a level of space beneath the […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien life forms, altered minds, multiple worlds, power, spaceships, universe, war

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

By John Folk-Williams

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Emily Tesh set herself a difficult task in Some Desperate Glory. Present the reader with a young protagonist raised in a militaristic society who is all about duty, war-breeding, xenophobia, homophobia and worse, then draw her through enough world-shattering experiences to make her interesting, flaws and all, from start to finish. And Tesh hits the […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, coming of age, Emily Tesh, family, identity, multiple worlds, spaceships, trauma

Meru by S.B. Divya, The Alloy Era, Book I

By John Folk-Williams

Meru by S.B. Divya

Meru by S.B. Divya is an intriguing space opera that presents a future Earth, ruined by humans, and now dominated by evolved sentient beings, known as alloys. A distant planet, named Meru, is evolving primitive life forms and has oxygen in its atmosphere, but humans, in their baseline form, are forbidden to settle there or […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: evolution, exoplanets, genetic change, ruined earth, S.B. Divya, sentient beings, spaceships

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