Utopias are rarely played straight these days. Though I could name off the top of my head a dozen recent, hugely popular dystopian novels (especially in YA - man, teens sure love their crapsack worlds), I can't think of any modern big-name utopias. (Not true utopias, anyway. If it's hiding a dark...
Sometimes I really like “going back in time” and read some of the old books in the genre. This one had been on my to-read shelf for a while. Unfortunately it was a bit of a disappointment.The book is of course old so one would expect the science in it to be somewhat outdated and that it is indeed. L...
I've seen this listed as a classic work of science fiction, but having now read this, I find that a misnomer. This is more anti-science fiction. Published in 1938, it involves a philologist, Elwin Ransom, kidnapped by a physicist, Professor Weston and his colleague Dr Devine and transported on a spa...
I know that I read this a decade ago during my fundamentalist period, but I remember nothing about it. I'm interested to see if it holds up as a good book (like the Narnia ones did) or was another I read simply because I didn't read any secular fiction and didn't therefore have that many options. ...
A good and underrated book. In many ways it seems like the whole book is a build up to the scene in which the protagonist unsuccessfully attempts to translate the villains words into the alien language, but it is a delight on the way to that scene and the scene is a great one. The book owes an obv...
Lewis has a gift for world building. I've climbed into a wardrobe or two in my time. Out of the Silent Planet's Malacandra isn't quite as vivid as Narnia, but it's close. The different alien races here are fascinating. My one great regret about the book is that it doesn't spend as much time as I wou...
First things first: Out of the Silent Planet is much better than The Chronicles of Narnia. In fact, now that I look back, I'm a bit surprised that they're writen by the same author. Narnia seems heavy-handed and altogether too religious by comparison. (Don't get me wrong; I like religion, bu I don't...
I have a thing for science fiction written by authors not known for sci-fi, like Doris Lessing, and so even though I haven't read much Lewis (none of his Narnia books, can you believe it?!), I had to say yes on this one. I will say straight out that I'm a science dummy, so sci-fi can be hit or miss...
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