Category: Book Review

Review of Saha by Cho Nam-Joo

January 28, 2024 No Comments

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

Review of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds.

January 19, 2024 No Comments

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

Review of Clarie G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius

February 1, 2023 No Comments

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

Review of Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

January 15, 2023 3 Comments

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

Review of Us and Them by Anthony J Langford.

January 4, 2023 1 Comment

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

Review of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, by Richard Flanagan

December 22, 2022 2 Comments

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

Quick review of The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

February 22, 2021 No Comments

The Future of Another Timeline occurs on an alternative Earth. In this universe, some artifacts can be used for time travel. In a few locations

Review of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

March 1, 2020 3 Comments

Unless you only get your news from a Donald Trump-authorised news source, you would know that The Testaments is Margaret Atwood’s recently released sequel to

Review of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity.

January 26, 2020 3 Comments

Although this blog is mainly about science fiction, I sometimes read non-genre literature to see what the other side is up to. Jonathon Franzen is

Quick review of The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

July 29, 2019 1 Comment

The Windup Girl is one of the most imaginative dystopian science fiction novels I have read. It has fantastic world-building and is peopled with flawed