The Gone World is a science fiction novel that involves time travel—but not your run-of-the-mill ordinary time travel. The prologue tells readers they are in for something different. In it, the main character, Shannon Moss, is frantically searching for safety
Cat’s Eye is a novel about a successful artist, Elaine Risley. She has returned to Toronto, where she grew up, for a retrospective exhibition of her work. While there, she reflects on her childhood and wonders whether one of her
Autonomous is set in 2144 in a divided world where the rich have access to wonderous drugs, while the poor can’t afford expensive health care. Many poor are indentured to owners who control their lives as if they are slaves.
The Last Screenwriter claims to be the first feature-length movie totally written by ChatGPT. The original cinematic world premiere was cancelled due to hundreds of complaints made to the cinema’s owner. It became free to watch on July 5. To create the script,
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818 and revised it for an 1831 edition. This review is of the 1818 edition, curiously labelled as an uncensored version. The novel begins with a series of letters between Captain Robert Dalton and his
The Redemption of Time is an extension of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Three-Body Problem) trilogy by Cixin Liu. It started as fanfiction by author Baoshu (the pen name of Li Jun). Publishers approached him, and with Cixin Liu’s blessing,
Homage to Catalonia is the story of George Orwell’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War. He originally went to Spain to write about the war. When he arrived in Spain, it was very much run by collectives in the Republican-controlled
Annie Bot is the story of a sentient sex bot. Her whole purpose and desire is to please her master, Doug. She can sense Doug’s emotional state and does all she can to keep him happy. In the beginning, Doug
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel set during the Spanish Civil War. It was written by Ernest Hemingway who was a war correspondent during that war. It won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. The plot of
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
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
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
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