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Under the Dome by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I finally finished Under the Dome’s 880 pages. What an epic, so much death and destruction, so many arseholes – King certainly enjoys writing about corrupt fools and

Turing Evolved by David Kitson My rating: 4 of 5 stars A really good read. Full of fresh ideas about artificial intelligence. The central theme is about attempts to create an artificial entity that has free will and makes its

Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction And Fantasy 4 by Bill Congreve My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had read all three of the previous volumes of The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Like the previous volumes, volume

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow My rating: 3 of 5 stars Cory Doctorow was a very enthusiastic panelist at Aussiecon4 last year. He tended to appear on panels about the future of writing and publishing, a subject that interested me,

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars A brilliant book which is perfect for the times we live in. It’s message is that humanity through action or inaction will destroy itself. The book

Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Set in Brisbane (where I lived for five years so I was familiar with much of the settings), it’s a horror novel with some wit. The reluctant hero

Datura Highway by Daniel King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Daniel King has written an exciting fantasy/psychological thriller that kept me guessing – and hoping – until the very end. It’s a novel with an original plot, which is

Hi all, This is the best of the three volumes I have read in the Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy. I had thought volume one (2005) was good, but that was mostly based on the stunning first story,

Kurt Vonnegut certainly has his own quirky writing style, a really warped view of reality. I would say Cat’s Cradle is less in touch with reality than Slaughterhouse Five. Cat’s Cradle is written in a tone amused at the strangeness

Hi all, I have not read any other Ian McEwan novels. I gather his other novels are serious dramas, whereas Solar was more of a tongue in cheek comedy. I never laughed out loud, but none the less I found