Category: fiction (Page 4 of 11)

Over at reason, Tom Jackson has a review of Cory Doctorow’s novel, Homeland. This novel is a sequel to Little Brother, and rife with current affairs in terms of computer, privacy, copyright, internet and other tech related matters. Jackson notes the protagonist]s occupation, which continues some of the main issues I found with the ending of Little Brother. Marcus Yallow, after being subjected to horrible persecution by government agents, still looked at reforming the system from within as an option. Yallow now “works for a politician, and he doesn’t give up on the democratic process, even after some difficult encounters with political reality.”

The sequel to Kristen Simmons’ Article 5 novel is now available, and looks just as interesting as the first one.

Which one better predicted our future? A graphic face-off between George Orwell’s 1984 future and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World future. Being familiar with both, and I find the latter unlikely as a whole, but parts of it each seem very true. Neither one should be dismissed, as those who want control will seek it through any means.

Over at Strange Horizons Martin Lewis reviews a book about 101 novels from a formative period of my sf readership. I’ll have to check it out. Don’t read this article on iOS, though, as it appears to hide all links and titles.

Nexus, a novel by Ramez Naam, currently sits on a stack of to-read books in my study. Screen rights have been acquired by Paramount. Another novel I am sure will be adopted or bought (if it hasn’t already happened), is Daniel Suarez’s thriller, Kill Decision, which is very cinematic.

Via Slate, news about an essay RLS wrote slagging the fiction of his day, possibly written around 1881.

For American sf fans, Adam Roberts is one of those unfortunate science fiction writers who happens to live in the UK. His books rarely get published in the US, and thus remain unfairly neglected over here. It’s too bad this Guardian blog entry talks about Roberts’ new novel without really talking about the novel.

Here’s a project I wish I’d known about sooner: Janine Southard’s Kickstarter project for her space opera novel, Queen & Commander. With two drafts already completed, the project kicked off in September 2012 and managed to get fully funded, resulting in a book scheduled for publication in April 2013, and two possible sequels in what she called the “Hive Queen Saga.”

From the Wall Street Journal, a review of several young adult novels. The first, Sally Gardner’s Maggot Moon, sounds enticing: “dystopia feels new again; it reclaims its power to shock.”