Time Machines – Repaired While U Wait, a review
Hi all, I have always loved a good story about time travel. Bad time travel stories have someone going back to a time where the protagonist frets about changing the future – will I or won’t I kill Hitler, Jack the Ripper, George Bush – and usually have me wanting the protagonist to have never […]
Review – The Elves of Cintra, by Terry Brooks
The Elves of Cintra is the second book in the three book Genesis ofShannara series by Terry Brooks. It is probably classified as young adult because the majority of the characters are teenagers, and the series has as its overarching theme that adults destroyed the Earth, so it is up to children/teens to save it. […]
Apologies to blog comment makers
Sorry to those who have made comments that I have seemed to ignore. I had thought that I had set blogger to notify me everytime someone made a comment, as happens with the myspace version of this blog, but obviously I did something wrong. I think I have rectified the problem.
Review – Analog Sept 2001
Hi all, I know it’s not the latest edition of Analog – and I still have plenty of earlier editions to read – but I learn a lot from reading older editions of what is probably the world’s best science-fiction magazine. This time around, the magazine had one novella, one novelette, two short stories and […]
Critiquing.
Hi all, My weekly critters email had a link to a survey on online critiquing. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aKiQQ2gam6kAeSOypOK8lg_3d_3d I completed the simple survey, which I don’t think will be that informative for the masters student conducting it, unless a lot of people, like me, write lengthy comments in the comments box at the end. The survey listened […]
Review of Greg Egan’s Teranesia
Hi all, I finished Australian author Greg Egan’s science fiction novel Teranesia a couple of weeks ago and have finally gotten around to this review. Egan is probably Australia’s most critically-acclaimed, living, science fiction author – more so overseas than it would seem in Australia. According to the list on the front of the book, […]
Graham’s best of 2008
Hi all, Well it was a lousy year for film, especially in Australia. I didn’t read many novels and commercial television in Australia kept on refusing to run or cut short some of the better science-fiction series going around. At least I have the sci-fi channel on cable – the limited Australian version anyway. Having […]
Review – Analog Dec 1996
Hi all, I very much enjoyed the originality of the stories in the Dec 1996 issue of Analog. In fact, I think it is the most original set of six stories that I have read in a speculative fiction magazine. A Replant Day Carol, by John Vester started off the collection. It was a strange […]
The Road, a review.
Hi all, I was attracted to The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, for a few reasons. Those who have followed this blog will realise that I an a fan of apocalyptic fiction and films, so that was the main attraction. Secondly, the Road won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and I have been concentrating on reading […]
comments
Hi all, I discovered last week that readers of this blog would not take anonymous comments, and a person would have to go to all the trouble of getting a google password if they wanted to say something. The day after I rectified this someone made an anonymous comment. I wonder how many comments I […]