Reading – or, for that matter, writing – galaxy-spanning space opera is not for everyone, particularly space opera with the scope and vision of Peter Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy. It isn’t even a trilogy, but rather a single gargantuan book cut into volumes for practical reasons. The three-volume edition I’m reading takes over 3,600 pages […]
Read MoreRecommendation: read Audrey Niffenegger’s ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’. Nuff said. … Okay, I relent. The cleverest time travel tale I’ve read to date as well as a deeply moving love story and a whirlwind tour of three decennia of American contemporary history, TTTW is a book that shook me to the bone and left me […]
Read MoreAt least, that’s what ‘Making history’ by Stephen Fry has the reader believing. A clever and well-researched time travel tale as well as a very loud message on the wisdom of assassinating Hitler, ‘Making history’ is a missionary book: a speculative fiction novel that has a good chance of convincing normal people that science fiction […]
Read MoreIf you’re looking for an enchanting, original, suspenseful, magical, poetic, confusing, charming book to read, and even if you’re not but like novels in general, go out and buy Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Or better still, order the book through Amazon right now. It’s one of those books that I will henceforth, having […]
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