Analysis of the science fiction novels listed in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013.
In my last post I analysed 13 science fiction books published in the US in January 2014. In this post I analyse the Goodreads Choice Awards for science fiction in 2013. I am interested to see what similarities there are between what is currently being published and what people are enjoying reading. To create the […]
Analysis of science fiction published in January 2014 in the US.
I was prompted to write this week’s post after I made a comment that a lot of the books published by one of the major science fiction publishers in the US seemed to be awful pulp fiction: full of mad scientists and buff alpha males saving damsels in distress. I was further prompted by an […]
2013 Top Ten Best Selling Books in Australia, the US and the UK.
I was curious how last year’s bestselling books compared between Australia, the US and the UK, so I had a look. Australia The top ten bestselling print books in Australia were: 1. Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney (228,400) 2. Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals, Jamie Oliver (173,800) 3. Inferno, Dan Brown (173,400) 4. […]
The Year of the Edit.
IT’S FINISHED!!!! Well at least the first draft of my epic science-fiction novel is finished. Last Thursday I wrote the final words of a first draft I started writing for in November 2011 for National Novel Writing Month. So it took me – rummages for calculator – 771 days to write 214,935 words, an […]
My Writing Year.
My Writing. I added 45880 words to my novel. I wrote 8 articles for Divine, of which 7 were published. Blog posts: 50 Number of days I wrote on: 365 I also enjoyed three days of the Melbourne Writers Festival. My Novel Writing. I started the year thinking I had a couple of chapters […]
2013’s Science-Fiction Books, Movies and Television.
Books Once again, I did not read many books this year, but the ones I read were nearly all very good science-fiction. As two books were from the same series, you would expect one of them to be my favourite book, and it was: Wool by Hugh Howey. This is the first time a self-published […]
Shift: A Review of Hugh Howey’s Apocalyptic Novel
Shift is great apocalyptic science-fiction. It is a prequel to the also excellent Wool. I reviewed Wool earlier this year. To fully appreciate Shift, you need to first read Wool. Anyone who reads Shift without first reading Wool risks missing out on the fun of discovering answers in Shift to questions posed in Wool. Perhaps […]
Anonymous Reviews
A new Australian newspaper called Saturday is set to come onto the market next year. I hope it does well, we need a lot more diversity in the Australian market. The newspaper will review books, nothing unusual there. What is unusual is the book reviewers will be anonymous, with the by-line for each review just […]
Ender’s Game, a review.
I have not read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, or any other book he has written. But I am aware that Ender’s Game is one of the iconic science fiction books. I am also aware the Card has controversial views on homosexuality. But if I was going to boycott a film or book because I […]
What Should I be Reading?
A newspaper article, along with a couple of list challenges and a television show, have me thinking about what I read. To Read People Better, Read More Literature. It started with an article in The Age with the intriguing title: If You Want to Read People Better, Read More Literature. The article was about a […]