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Science Fiction

Book Review: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

December 23, 2022 by Neil Williams 1 Comment

Synopsis As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn’s crew has reached their breaking point. […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Debut, Dystopian, Horror, Horror, Reviews, Sci-Fi Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Alien, aliens, Horror, LGBTQ, Macmillan, Macmillan Publishing, Monster, Science Fiction, sciencefiction, scifi, Space, spaceship

Review: Light Years From Home by Mike Chen

December 22, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials.  When Jakob Shao returns to Earth fifteen years after he was abducted by aliens, he’ll have to locate a device which could save not just the world, but the universe. Who better to help him than his estranged family and the two sisters whose […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi Tagged With: Science Fiction

Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

December 14, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis The sound of a violin plays an otherworldly tune in an airship terminal.  That same tune is heard in moments across time and space, transporting the listener backwards and forwards to this same point. This single melody connects lives that are separated by centuries.  An exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Science Fiction

Review: Tales From Another Dimension by Robbie Sheerin

November 30, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis How will HG Wells react when he wakes 200 years in the future on a strange planet, faced with a terrible truth? Two young brothers make a frightening discovery about their neighbours.  Do robots secretly want to rule us all? A scientist goes to the extreme in order to change the future of mankind. […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Alt History, Artificial Intelligence, Dystopian, Mechs/Robots, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi Tagged With: Science Fiction, Short Stories

SFF Addicts Ep. 32: Robots & AI (with Daniel H. Wilson, Ada Hoffmann, Emma Mieko Candon & I. S. Lee)

November 29, 2022 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join host Adrian M. Gibson and authors Daniel H. Wilson, Ada Hoffmann, Emma Mieko Candon and I. S. Lee as they program the virtual realities of robots and artificial intelligence. During the panel they discuss why robots & AI are so captivating, the dialogue between science and sci-fi, humanist thinking, debates around intelligence and consciousness, transhumanism and posthumanism, creation and gods, nature vs. technology and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Ada Hoffmann, Artificial Intelligence, Author Panels, Daniel H. Wilson, Emma Mieko Candon, I. S. Lee, Panel, Podcast, Podcast Panel, robots, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, SFF Addicts

Review: Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

November 18, 2022 by Scott Leave a Comment

Summary: Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons – “Bad Monkeys” for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail’s psychiatric wing, where a […]

Filed Under: Murder Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Matt Ruff, Science Fiction, scifi

Review: Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

November 15, 2022 by Jared Besse 3 Comments

I’m happy to announce that Children of Memory exceeded my expectations and was a wild ride from the front to back. It may not be perfect, but it is a great science fiction novel with signature Tchaikovsky creativity all wrapped in a great philosophical question.

Filed Under: Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Book Review, children of memory, Orbit Books, Review, Science Fiction

Review: TimeLock (Book #1 of the TimeLock novella series) by Peter Berk and Howard Berk

November 15, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis With crime rampant in the near future, the President authorizes a controversial program: TimeLock, a cellular acceleration process that instantly ages prisoners the total number of years of their sentence. In other words-three strikes and you’re old . . . very old. But what happens if you’re innocent? Falsely convicted of murder, 23-year-old Morgan […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Science Fiction, Thriller

Review: Stormblood (Book #1 of The Common) by Jeremy Szal

November 4, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Vakov Fukusawa used to be a Reaper: an elite soldier fighting for Harmony against the brutal, invading Harvester empire.  Harmony made him elite by injecting him, and thousands of other Reapers, with the DNA of an extinct alien race to make him stronger, faster, and more aggressive. And it worked. At a cost . […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Military SF, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Space Opera Tagged With: Gollancz, Science Fiction

Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

September 23, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis “You are the next step in human evolution…”  What if you could be capable of more?  What if you could think sharper, read faster, memorise better, sleep deeper? For Logan Ramsay, it’s happening. He’s been targeted for an upgrade. The problem is, it wasn’t his choice. His genes have been hacked.  To discover why, […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Science Fiction

Review: The Emergent (Book #2 of the Cosmic Series) by Nadia Afifi

September 22, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis  Neuroscientist Amira Valdez is in danger. Andrew Reznik, the ruthless leader of the fundamentalist Trinity Compound, is using a powerful mind control drug to form an army with a shared consciousness and a single goal — to wage war against the outside world. And he’s determined to capture Amira to study the strange neurological […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi Tagged With: Flame Tree Press, Science Fiction

Interview: Emily Inkpen, creator of The Dex Legacy

September 18, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

If you’ve listened to the grimdark, political sci-fi audio drama, The Dex Legacy, then you’ll know it’s awesome. If you haven’t had chance to listen to it, and you wondered what it was like, you can check out my review of season one by clicking right here. But instead of hearing me babble on about […]

Filed Under: Author Chat, Interview, Science Fiction Tagged With: Audio Drama, Author Interview, Science Fiction

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