Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card: less science and more personality than much science fiction
Orson Scott Card’s classic Ender’s Game is so successful in large part because his characters are well-rounded. … Read the full post »
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Orson Scott Card’s classic Ender’s Game is so successful in large part because his characters are well-rounded. … Read the full post »
It has become a Christmas tradition of mine to read a Philip K Dick novel, so this year it was Radio Free Albemuth. … Read the full post »
Jack Vance’s Emphyrio, published in 1969, is both one of his best books and an example of the limitations of much science-fiction of that era. … Read the full post »
Very clever graphic to illustrate a pretty clever film, Inception. (Only ‘pretty’ clever because sci-fi book authors have been trading in such complexity for decades.) … Read the full post »
After a pause of several months – longer than planned – Flash Forward has returned to our TV screens with two episodes back to back. … Read the full post »
Catch-up special on Saturday 20 March (details including repeat slots here) and then its the first new episode on Monday 22 March, 9pm on Five. … Read the full post »
The TV series Flash Forward was due to return to TV screens today in the US, for the second part of its first season. … Read the full post »
Flash Forward due to screen again in the US on Thursday 4 March and Five have said they will start screenings in the UK in March. … Read the full post »
Although space travel features briefly in the background of The Man in the High Castle, it is a novel about a different post-Second World War world – one in which Japan and Germany had won and partitioned the US. … Read the full post »
During the week, the last episode of Flash Forward was screened for a while. It being a US show that is, unusually, being broadcast at nearly the same time in the UK… … Read the full post »