Tag: Speculative fiction
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact Sept/Oct 2024
From an editorial review: The September/October 2024 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact delivers a robust balance of rigorous, hard sci-fi worldbuilding, procedural mysteries, and thoughtful examinations of near-future sociology. Edited by Trevor Quachri, this double issue continues the magazine’s long-standing tradition of grounding speculative concepts in plausible scientific realities while expanding its narrative boundaries. Could… Read more
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Overview This is a masterpiece. You are likely thinking, “Neilos says things like that in a lot of his reviews.” That’s true, but rather than saying, “no this time I really mean it” I will say that the reason is I read a lot of great books. Not all of them, what fun would that… Read more
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R is for Rocket
Overview: This was amazing. Overview with more than three words: Published in 1962 by Doubleday (and subsequently as the version I read, a popular Bantam paperback), R is for Rocket serves as a curated introduction to the lyrical prose and speculative imagination of Ray Bradbury. While many of the seventeen stories had appeared in earlier… Read more
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The Skin Map
Well, this was not good. Not good at all. I’m not going to pan it and trash it, the author writes fairly well but this book was all over the (skin) map and was a real slog to get through. Remember, I’ve been through Life of Johnson and Decline and Fall so when I say… Read more
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Vitals
Review: An excellent, thrilling, spooky, paranoid journey into what was (in 2000) the near future, now the near past. You see this with references to VHS, and the differing formats, as well as “the team set to work with digital cameras.” Like there are other types of camera, still were in 2000. It was fast… Read more