Category: science fiction
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Sci-Fi Wonder in Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is a blockbuster of a novel set on a spaceship manned by the chosen few to save humanity. Akin to a mystery whodunit, The Deep Sky opens with a bang – well, an explosion – and throws everyone on board into a frenzy as the ship is blown off-course and…
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Mockingjay’s Cruelty is Unmatched
My heart has been ripped from my chest countless times while reading Mockingjay, the final book in Suzanne Collins’s phenomenal The Hunger Games trilogy. It is a concise novel, but that doesn’t make it any less punchy. In fact, I think I’m bruised all over after getting through this book. All jokes aside, Mockingjay ups…
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Cosy Sci-Fi with Becky Chambers The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet
With cosy fantasy becoming more popular and sought after, I have started to label things as “cosy” within their respective genres. Becky Chambers’s The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet is one of those books that radiates good vibes and feels like a cosy sci-fi – something I find very difficult to pull off.…
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Catching Fire’s Impact Cannot Be Understated
Catching Fire marks the point of no return within the Hunger Games timeline, with the uprisings in Districts 3, 4, 8 and 11 changing the course of the narrative, not only as pivotal moments in the world of Panem but pivotal moments in Katniss’s life, where she is now stepping into the adult world within…
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Reading The Hunger Games as an Adult: How Different is the Reading Experience?
I wasn’t expecting much, in all honesty. I thought that, though it has been a decade or more since I last read the series, The Hunger Games would be a great YA dystopian book with a strong nostalgia for a time in the past, but it wouldn’t be able to surpass its YA title to…
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This Is How You Lose The Time War – This Is How You Write A Sapphic Forbidden Love Story
You’re missing out if you haven’t read This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladwell. Like, truly, from the bottom of my heart, I implore you to add this to your TBR at the very least because it will change the way you view poetic prose and science fiction.…
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The Incredible Mary Shelley and her work Frankenstein
Mary Shelley is the pioneer of science fiction, the grandmother of horror, the idol for many generations of women aspiring to become author, or simply to have a voice, and of many authors of all genders in the centuries following her publication of Frankenstein. We wouldn’t have our spine-chilling horror, boundless science fiction or any…