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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card

Posted by Sherry on 8/6/2010 in Adult Fiction, General, History, Science Fiction

Wow! This historical fiction/science fiction novel by a master of both genres was so absorbing that I stayed up late to finish reading it and to find out what would happen to Christopher Columbus in a re-imagined world, changed by time travelers from the future. The book reminded me of Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book and [...]

 
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Posted by Sherry on 5/21/2010 in General, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

Good story. Annoying political agenda. The story is about seventeen year old San Francisco high school student Marcus Yallow, who in the wake of a terrorist attack is arrested, held and tortured by the Department of Homeland Security. Marcus is a techno-geek and a smart-aleck, but he’s no terrorist. Well, at least he’s not a [...]

 
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Posted by Sherry on 2/4/2010 in General, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

Connie Willis has a new book out called Blackout. No, this review is not supposed to be about Ms. WIllis’s new book, a book that I am not going to buy even though I’m a big fan of Ms. Willis’s writing. This post is about the reason that I’m not going to read Ms. Willis’s [...]

 
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Wednesday’s Whatever: Perelandra and Truth

Posted by Sherry on 9/23/2009 in Christian Life, General, Science Fiction

Jeanne Damoff, one of the writers at the blog The Master’s Artist, writes about how C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra “Can Powerfully Inform the Practical Application of Truth.” Part 1: “The plot basically answers this question: “What would happen if God created reasoning beings on another planet and gave them the same opportunity Adam and Eve had [...]

 
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BBAW: Best Speculative Fiction Blog

Posted by Sherry on 9/9/2009 in Blogamundi (Links), Fantasy Fiction, General, Science Fiction

Voting is now open at the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards. Bibliophile Stalker Charles Tan, The Bibliophile Stalker, is having computer issues; I can sympathize. He’s a promoter of Philippine speculative fiction, a niche that hadn’t occurred to me but sounds interesting. In addition to speculative fiction, he enjoys and reports on RPG’s, anime, and [...]

 
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Dystopian Reading

Posted by Sherry on 9/3/2009 in General, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff. The Roar by Emma Clayton. These two books actually have quite a bit in common, although the tone in each is quite different from the other. Both books are set in a future dystopian England, war-ravaged and poverty-stricken. Both books emphasize the meaninglessness of war, with quite strong [...]

 
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To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Posted by Sherry on 4/28/2009 in Adult Fiction, General, Science Fiction

TSNOTD is a comedy in contrast to the tragedy of Doomsday Book by the same author, which I wrote about last week. It’s a delightful romp in which the fate of the universe may or may not be at stake. However, the course of history and the universe is “self-correcting,” shades of LOST, so the [...]

 
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Posted by Sherry on 4/23/2009 in Adult Fiction, General, Science Fiction

I have a new author to add to my list of favorites: Connie Willis. And I’m delighted because she’s written and published lots of books, and I’m planning to read all of them (except for the short story collections; I don’t like short stories.) I’ve already read three of her books, and although each of [...]

 
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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Posted by Sherry on 2/15/2009 in Adult Fiction, General, Science Fiction

Wow! This book was not what I expected at all. I don’t remember who recommended it, and I didn’t make note of the recommendation in my TBR list along with the title of the book. I had some vague idea that that title had something to do with Matthew 10:29-30, where Jesus said: “Are not [...]

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