Tag Archives: SF

Review: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire (1965-’82) by Mike Butterworth & Don Lawrence

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

The Trigan Empire series is one of the most cherished, celebrated series in the history of British comics. Written in the 1960s to ‘80s, it achieved fame mainly in Britain and mainland European countries. The Netherlands in particular embraced the … Continue reading →

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Philip K. Dick – Dr. Bloodmoney (1965) Review

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 Dr. Bloodmoney, Or How We Got Along After the Bomb is the full title of this novel. (Although the full title of my edition seems to be Dr Bloodmoney One of the Most Original Practitioners Writing Any Kind Of … Continue reading →

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Review: The Hair-Carpet Weavers (1995) by Andreas Eschbach

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Follow us to a little village on a faraway planet somewhere among the distant stars. In this village, the profession of hair-carpet weavers is part of an honoured tradition and an essential link in the local economy. Carpet weavers, … Continue reading →

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Robert Sheckley – Untouched by Human Hands (1954) Review

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Robert Sheckley was one of the giants of science fiction in the 1950s and 60s and wrote about 400 short stories and a bunch of books, but nobody remembers him now. A shame, because his work is very entertaining … Continue reading →

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James S.A. Corey – Persepolis Rising (2017) Review

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 Book 7 in James S. Corey’s The Expanse series. “Almost three decades had passed since (…)” are the words with which this book opens. Three decades on from the events of the previous books. From the perspective of the … Continue reading →

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Review: Elder Race (2021) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Let me bring out that old, chewed-out saying by Artie Clarke. Say it with me now: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Yes, and boy does Adrian Tchaikovsky play with it here. Elder Race (2021) is a … Continue reading →

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Greg Egan – Axiomatic (1995) review

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Axiomatic gathers together 18 of Greg Egan’s first short stories, from the beginning of his writing career and most of them written in the early 1990s. Six of these 18 also appeared in the recent The Best of Greg … Continue reading →

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Review: The Best of Greg Egan (2019)

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Since the beginning of the 1990s, Greg Egan has been quietly producing the most mind-blowing science fiction you could imagine. Not being the kind of guy who puts himself in the spotlight (he’s known for keeping himself away), and … Continue reading →

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Philip K. Dick – Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1970) review

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 The 22nd century, in this short and strange novel, is a bit of a dystopian place. The government and all scientific advancement is in the hands of mutants with superior mental powers. So-called New Men and Unusuals, with big, … Continue reading →

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Adrian Tchaikovsky – Shards of Earth (2021) Review

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Tchaikovsky goes in big in his prologue as he talks about a moon-sized eldritch space horror, an Architect, emerging from unspace, and giant fleets in which more than one alien race is present, and a main character named Solace, … Continue reading →

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