Tag Archives: sci-fi

Book Review: Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Tietsu

“Life is not a fairytale.” This is the operative truth at the heart of this novel and Cixin Liu is willing to wield a four dimensional hammer to make sure that particular nail gets hammered home. This book is brutal. … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged aliens, Chinese Culture, Chinese Literature, Cixin Liu, Cormac McCarthy, Death's End, Ken Liu, Mad Max, Philip K. Dick, Remembrance of Earth's Past, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2)

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Tietsu

The first third, perhaps half, of this book is weak, bordering on tedious. Broadcasting its movements like the overconfident failings of a twelve-year-old. Where The Three-Body Problem was a science fiction mystery, The Dark Forest rests firmly in the Action/Adventure … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged aliens, Chinese Culture, Chinese Literature, Cixin Liu, invasion, Joel Martinsen, Remembrance of Earth's Past, sci-fi, science, science fiction, The Dark Forest, translation | 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

Book Review: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Tietsu

The first chapter of the book was wonderful. I mean, it did absolutely nothing to prepare you for the rest of the book, it triggered some things, but its haunting historical truth and the human madness dancing across the pages … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged aliens, Chinese Culture, Chinese Literature, Cixin Liu, invasion, Ken Liu, philsophy, Remembrance of Earth's Past, sci-fi, science, science fiction, The Three-Body Problem, translation | 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: Neuromancer by William Gibson

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Tietsu

I’ve tried reading this book something like four time over the last two years, but something about it always kept me from feeling comfortable about finishing it, about casting it aside and with it settling upon a judgment that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged cyberpunk, cyberspace, Genre defining, hacking, Japan, Neuromancer, sci-fi, science fiction, Shadowrun, street samurai, techno-dystopia, William Gibson | 2 Comments

(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

Book Review: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Tietsu

This book should have been easy. I say this with hindsight, with the whole of the apocalyptic genre between myself and it. It should have been easy to follow the last man. It’s episodic, almost self-written. Lonely, thrilling, philosophical, introspective, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, fiction | Tagged 20th century american literature, apocalypse, character study, classics, dystopian, earth abides, fiction, literary fiction, Post Apocalyptic, sci-fi, science fiction | Leave a comment

Red Boar Jones: Concept Phase #1

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Tietsu

A hint at what’s going on with another another book while another steadily trudges its way up hill Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged A hint at things to come, A novel someday, advice, Bad Decisions, Book #2, Concept, cyberpunk, dialogue, Red Boar Jones, Rough Draft, sci-fi, tech | 1 Comment