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Tag: science fiction

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: Audition by Pip Adam

Ishiguro meets Le Guin.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

The rich, complicated conclusion to N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Hugo Award, Novel, science fiction

Review: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A head-spinning romp through time.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Time travel

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.

Classics, Climate change, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, speculative fiction

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.

Classics, Climate change, Frankenstein, Novel, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, Switzerland
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