Tag Archives: science fiction

Stephen Markley – The Deluge (2023) Review

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

9.5/10 In Stephen Markley’s immense, epic climate change novel, we are treated to a host of characters who all try to fight the system to do something about climate change, but in different ways. There’s the environmental scientist, Tony Pietrus, … Continue reading →

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Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (1962) Review

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

9.5/10 Fhew! Wow. That was a trip. Full of tense energy is how the novel opens. Drugged up young assholes looking for violence. What’s it gonna be, eh? Drinking spiked milk in a milkbar to work up that energy (such … Continue reading →

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R.A. Lafferty – The Reefs of Earth (1968) Review

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 An exceedingly strange little novel about six alien children (seven if you count Bad John) who are stranded on planet Earth and decide to exterminate the human race. Looking at my little nephews, that is about five more than … Continue reading →

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The Gone World (2018) by Tom Sweterlitsch

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 The Gone World is a darn good thriller/SF novel. Consisting of equal parts boots-on-the-ground crime investigation and space/time travel, this novel offers a combination of TV shows like True Detective and NCIS and SF like Twelve Monkeys and The … Continue reading →

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Christopher Ruocchio – Howling Dark (2019) Review

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Howling Dark, the second novel in Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series. Thus far, no suns have been eaten. The end of the first novel, Empire of Silence (2018), marked the start of an exciting new journey for Severian-like Hadrian Marlowe … Continue reading →

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Michael Swanwick – Vacuum Flowers (1987) Review

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Michael Swanwick’s Vacuum Flowers is an early cyberpunk novel and a bit forgotten and definitely under-appreciated. It is full of bio- and neurotech and shows a great variety of solar system societies along the lines of Kim Stanley Robinson’s … Continue reading →

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Artificial Wisdom (2023) by Thomas R. Weaver

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 A near-future, climate fiction thriller. Take the emotional heart of the husband story from Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, add the apocalyptic events and geo-engineering from Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock, add … Continue reading →

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Henry Kuttner – Fury (1947) Review

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 Henry Kuttner’s SF novel Fury from the late 1940s feels like a proto-version of Alfred Bester’s much more famous The Stars My Destination (1956). It has the same wacky, off-world futuristic settings, and the same kind of tough, bald, … Continue reading →

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Ghost in the Shell (1991) by Masamune Shirow. Manga Review

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

As far as famous mangas go, this is a weird one. This is an interesting one. On the one hand, Ghost in the Shell has enormous historical significance. It is one of the founding works of the cyberpunk movement from … Continue reading →

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Jack Vance – The Demon Princes, Volume 1 (Review)

Posted on February 11, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

Reviewed here: The Demon Princes series is the kind of revenge narrative that these days is often described as a Kill Bill story. Kill Bill, but in the far reaches of space where the rule of law is not yet … Continue reading →

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