Tag Archives: dystopia

Footsteps (Excerpt)

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Tietsu

Soon, after leaving their settlement and emerging from the forest and onto an old and overgrown asphalt road they met a pack of stray dogs. Stray wasn’t the right word. They were mostly dosmeticated, easy to approach, which landed them … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged baby steps towards progress, Dogs, dystopia, minstrels, nature, ronin, scavenging, slice of life, survival | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Tietsu

It’s a weird world and I’m weird man, in a weird place, not unlike the world Atwood writes about here. The way it’s written though, it’s different, strange, lyricless when compared to her other work. There is this self-aware lack … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged dystopia, Elvis Impersonators, euthanasia, MaddWorld Trilogy, Margaret Atwood, Organ Harvesting, Orwell, Pedophelia, science fiction, Sex Dolls, The Heart Goes Last, Tolstoy | Leave a comment

Coward

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Tietsu

“Never tol’ ya where I was headin’. Never tol’ ya nothin’. Just showed up and took it ‘pon yerself ta follow. Well, surprise darlin’, ain’t headin’ nowhere. Been walkin’ since I can ‘member. One broke path to ‘nother. Ya see … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged coward, dystopia, knowledge, lies, living through the end, No one said survival was going to be easy, Old, pragmatic in the face oblivion, pragmatism, scarred, survival, wanderer | Leave a comment

(Comic) Book Review: Giganto Maxia by Kentaro Miura

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Tietsu

One hundred million years ago lands us firmly in the center of what is commonly known as the Cretaceous period, and what is more uncommonly known as the “DEAR-LORD-GOD-FUCK-NO-PLEASE-DON’T-MAKE-ME-GO BACK-THERE” period. It is a time where the Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged attack on titan, comics, Dinosaurs, dystopia, fantasy, imperialism, Kentaro Miura, Manga, science fiction, shingeki no kyojin, Urolagnia, water bears | Leave a comment

Book Review: United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Tietsu

Look, I saw a book with a giant mech on it and proclaimed itself about United States of Japan. This was worth a laugh, an ‘ah, how silly’, because indeed it was silly. But then something changed. I saw an endorsement … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged alternative history, Code Geass, dystopia, giant robots, Japan, Mech, Peter Tieryas, Philip K. Dick, religion, science fiction, The Man in the High Castle, United States of Japan, World War II | Leave a comment

Book Review: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Tietsu

It took Walter Tevis 17 years from the published of his utterly sublime novel The Man Who Fell to Earth and the publication of his next novel Mockingbird. In that intervening time he had developed two relatively full-time jobs: professor … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged Brave New World, dystopia, Idiocracy, Mockingbird, Penises, religion, Robots, sci-fi, science fiction, sex, suicide, the man who fell to earth, Walter Tevis | Leave a comment

(Comic)Book Review: Blame! Master Edition – Volume 1

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Tietsu

The English title Blame! is a heinous and unabashed mistranslation of the proper title Blam! (the sound of a gun firing and a gun being the most talkative amongst all the books characters.) Why they thought that Blame! made any … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged Blame!, cyberpunk, Cyborgs, dystopia, Grunge, horror, Manga, Pandemic, sci-fi, science fiction, Technological Singularity, Tsutomu Nihei, world building | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Water Knife

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Tietsu

I like Paolo Bacigalupi. I like his dogged pursuit of environmentalist sci-fi dystopia. It’s a rare genre and one that it would be all too easy to get drenched in the Holier-Than-Thou attitude that comes with any deeply held conviction … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged #phoenixdownthetubes, Draught, dystopia, Environmentalism, murder, Near Future, Paolo Bacigalupi, Religious Cults, sci-fi, science fiction, The Water Knife, Thriller, water | Leave a comment

Book Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Tietsu

This is a tightly written book. Few words are wasted and even fewer are spent actually playing in the world he spent time creating. It’s so tightly sprung around the plot that there is little time for anything else. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged adventure, boy rescues girl, Drunk abusive father, dystopia, enviornmentalism, Paolo Bacigalupi, poverty, salvage, Scarcity, science fiction, Ship Breaker, YA, young adult | 1 Comment

(Comic)Book Review: East of West: The Apocalypse, Year One by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Tietsu

This book is like having sex the first time. It’s fast, it’s messy and in the throes of bodies smashed and thrust together you’re bound to miss some things. But in the end you’re left confused, perplexed, but unabashedly certain … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged alternative history, apocalypse, Comic book, comics, dystopia, East of West, ethics, graphic novel, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, sci-fi, science fiction, western | Leave a comment