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 […]
Review of Clarie G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius
Having read Claire G. Coleman’s The Old Lie, I knew she was an Indigenous Australian who wrote science fiction that commented on the historical and present-day treatment of Indigenous Australians. When I started reading her earlier novel Terra Nullius, I was immediately looking for science fiction elements. The novel starts as if set in the […]
Review of Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy is the third and final novel in Ann Leckie’s award-winning Imperial Radch series. The books are about the adventures of Breq an Ancillary who was connected to a ship that was destroyed. An Ancillary is a human who has been turned into an AI and has their consciousness connected to a ship. They […]
Review of Us and Them by Anthony J Langford.
Us and Them is a collection of short stories and poems that will open your heart to the lives of others, especially the mind of its author, Anthony J Langford. The collection will have you thinking about how you interact with others, and had this reader vowing to be more open to what might be […]
Review of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, by Richard Flanagan
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is about a dying mother, Francie, and the efforts of her adult children to keep her alive, even though she wants to die. The children have lost the ability to communicate with each other and are out to show they have the power, at least in the case of Anna […]