Category: Science fiction

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

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

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

Quick review of When the Floods Came.

March 4, 2019 1 Comment

When the Floods Came is a well-written and imaginative take on an apocalyptic future. The novel is set in England, where a virus has wiped

A uni essay about two of the most influential books I have read

July 29, 2017 7 Comments

I wrote This personal essay for a subject in my BA in Internet Communications. It is about the influence of two books, 1984 and Stephen

Female Heroes

December 30, 2015 No Comments

Recently, some media commentators have said that female heroes are coming to the fore in science fiction because of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and

Review of Brother in the Land

May 22, 2015 No Comments

Brother in The Land begins with teenager Danny taking a break from working in his father’s corner store for a long bike ride into the English

Review of The Method – a dystopian science fiction novel.

March 30, 2015 No Comments

Juli Zeh’s The Method is a very believable dystopian science-fiction thriller. It is a different take on themes explored in novels like 1984 and Brave