Review of The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger is a novel with a false plot that doesn’t matter at all. Things happen, and you think they may be connected, but that connection is never substantiated. So, it is a frustrating novel for anyone who wants events to come together in the end. What is it about then? It is about Bobby, […]
Review of The Dark Man by Referral by Chuck McKenzie
The Dark Man, by Referral and Less Pleasant Tales, is a collection of ‘horror’ short stories. I put the horror in quotation marks as the stories are not that horrific. They are more thriller stories in the tone of The Twilight Zone, with a bit of added humour. There is no blood, gore, or scary […]
Review of The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky is the third novel in the Hugo award-winning Broken Earth trilogy. While perhaps slightly less engrossing than the other two novels, it is still a grand finale to the series. The trilogy features incredible original world-building. Its various elements interlock with a thorough consistency. The characters control the world, live the world, […]
Review of Never-Ending Day by Graham Storrs
Never-Ending Day is an enjoyable read. Its title comes from the fact that most of the action takes place in a Dyson wheel which is a structure built around and enclosing a star, so those inside always have the star’s light shining on them. The story is set hundreds of years into the future where […]
A review of Julia by Sandra Newman
I can’t remember reading a more harrowing novel than Sandra Newman’s Julia. The novel really had me fearing for the two main characters and where our society might be heading. Julia is the story of Winston Smith’s lover from the novel 1984. I read 1984 decades ago, so I am not sure how much the […]
The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
The Terminal Experiment is a terrific science fiction thriller set in what was the author’s near future. It was written in 1995 and set in 2011. The novel has a prologue, so the reader knows that a murder is going to happen and a police officer is also going to be poisoned. The plot starts […]
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
The Glad Shout is a novel that will shake many reader’s expectations of their future prospects. It portrays a potential future for many of us, especially those who live near the coast. The novel is set in 2045 after a massive storm has flooded Melbourne, destroying much of the housing and infrastructure, including power. The […]
Review of Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
Saha is a dystopian novel set on a fictitious Korean island called Town. The island is completely corporatised. Everything is run by a company, from education to health to the government. To survive in Town, you have to be a good corporate citizen. It is the sort of utopia someone like Elon Musk or Gina […]
Review of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds.
I read War of the Worlds after seeing it on a list of subversive novels. It attempts to get its readers to question the British invasion of countries and the way it treated their indigenous populations. Wells wrote it in part as a response to how the British slaughtered Aborigines in Tasmania. The War of […]
Using Artificial Intelligence
If you haven’t heard, Artificial Intelligence has advanced in the past couple of years. I used the AI ChatGPT to write the text for an advertisement for my business and D-id to create the talking head. This technology can be used to write text and add talking heads to websites. The text will probably need a […]