science fiction

Book Review: Variant by Robison Wells

Variant by Robison Wells gets moving quickly. It take about four pages to learn most of what you’re going to about the main character’s back story. His name is Benson Fisher and he quickly vaults from yet another foster home to a school where…wait for it…Nothing Is As It Seems! Maxfield Academy is surrounded by [...]

April 23, 2012 READ MORE →

A Galaxy Not So Far Away

A Galaxy Not so Far Away: Writers and Artists on 25 Years of Star Wars will appeal to you if you: Are a Star Wars fan Have ever been a Star Wars fan Hate Jar Jar Binks, whom one author will only refer to as HWSNBN (He who shall not be named) Have ever been [...]

November 21, 2011 READ MORE →

Characters in Untenable Situations – Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

If there is one thing that Ms. Butler excels at–spoiler, there are many things that she excels at–it is creating absolutely untenable situations for her characters and then making them even worse. I’m always grimly impressed by how creative she can be when trying to make her characters miserable. Enter today’s story. I read Bloodchild [...]

October 19, 2011 READ MORE →

Kindred by Octavia Butler

It’s pretty rare that I discover an author I instantly love, and then find out that they have an extensive catalog I can read, and then I find out that they died tragically at age 58 and that once I’ve read them all, there will be no more books. But that’s been my experience with [...]

September 28, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: Embassytown

Guest post by Whitney Jones China Mieville is an amazing and infuriating writer. His worlds, meticulously built and lovingly detailed, force the reader to pay attention to every page for fear of being left behind. As a leader of the “New Weird” movement in speculative fiction, Mieville isn’t afraid to push the reader a little [...]

August 11, 2011 READ MORE →

The Best Science Fiction Novels – The List Compiled By You

I like having smart friends. After the best fantasy books discussion, I went back and made a complete list with all of the novels that you genius readers suggested. Today I’m going to do the same thing with the best science fiction novels (and a couple of shorter works), taken from your comments and emails. [...]

March 20, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: God Emperor of Dune

Reader…(said in a worm voice) Would it surprise you to know that I am a giant, bored, deified worm? Tis true! The weight of my prescience doth bode ill forsooth and ill anon and yet without the–oh, I doth ache for a surprise and as the chasms of time yawn out into the raging infinities [...]

February 24, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: Stardance – Guest post by Jodi Kaplan

I first read Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson over 20 years ago. When I sat down to read it again, I thought it was a great book with aliens in it, dancing, and spacefaring. While there are aliens, it’s really a story about adapting to new circumstances, why humans aren’t interchangeable, and about being [...]

November 26, 2010 READ MORE →

Three More Great Science Fiction Books

It has been an interesting year as far as reading habits on World’s Strongest Librarian. I have never been much of a science fiction reader. Normally if I pick up a sci fi novel it is because someone I trust–or someone who knows me extremely well–recommends a book to me. Well, that has happened several [...]

November 2, 2010 READ MORE →

The Child Thief by Brom – Book Review by Kris Wragg

When I was a child one of my favourite movies to watch was Peter Pan (along with Dumbo and Winnie the Pooh). The thought of this magical land where you never grew up really appealed to me, just think, you could have fun FOREVER and if you can’t be a pirate then the next best [...]

October 25, 2010 READ MORE →