Book Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
Video games stand out as possibly the best model for UI design and how virtual reality will function in the future—point-in-fact, the entire MMO community shows us that virtual worlds are already a...
View ArticleThe Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
For people who were huge fans of Stephenson’s seminal cyberpunk work, Snow Crash, then you’ll want to move right onto The Diamond Age because it’s essentially the same world, with new people and a bit...
View ArticleBook Review: Glasshouse by Charles Stross
When it comes to the science fiction genre, Glasshouse initially struck me as a little bit of an oddity. At it’s core, it’s a powerful self-examination of society style of speculative fiction with deep...
View ArticleBook Review: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Some science fiction not only speaks to the effect of technology on people, but also the epic sweep of character and the overall character of humanity in the face of the unknown. In this way, Dan...
View ArticleBook Review: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Steampunk is a much-overlooked literary form of science fiction that many science fiction fans find themselves drawn into. It’s often presented as a look at what-might-have-been through the eyes of...
View ArticleBook Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Anyone working their way through the cyberpunk genre should at least stop by Blade Runner (a movie) but many don’t know that the movie is really set from a book by Philip K. Dick and that book is Do...
View ArticleBook Review: Vast by Linda Nagata
The book Vast by Linda Nagata is the culmination of a trilogy that follows a small group of characters through the trials of outliving their own cultural heritage and how their technology has...
View ArticleBook Review: The Ship Who Sang by Anne McAffrey
The author Anne McAffrey is best known for her fantasy series The Dragonriders of Pern but she’s also a Hugo Award winning author of science fiction novels. Any enterprising science fiction enthusiast...
View ArticleBook Review: Bloom by Wil McCarthy
If you’ve ever encountered the concept of grey goo and “The Game of Life,” a computer model that uses something called cellular-automata along with simple rules and a grid system to generate...
View ArticleBook Review: The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The hallmark of good science fiction is that it draws the reader into an alien world where people very much like the reader face fantastic dilemmas in an alien setting that the reader can still...
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