Ian McDonald’s 2004 River of Gods was a return to writing after a three year break.   Batteries obviously recharged, the novel won t...

The State of the Art is a collection of short fiction by Iain Banks written between’84 and ’87.   Surprisingly, it is the only such ...

Unlike many science fiction series which tend to work linearly, continuing the story lines of favorite characters book after book, Ia...

Imagine a person, their heart set on a steak.   They go to the shop, buy a hunk of meat and throw it on the grill.   But just as the juice...

Orson Scott Card’s books are like shooting stars: a few flash brilliantly across the sky, but always an anonymous twinkle remains.  His ...

There is space opera, and then there is Space Opera.   Dan Simmon’s 1989 Hyperion is S.P.A.C.E. O.P.E.R.A.   From grand schemes to the...

Simmons having carefully woven each strand in Hyperion , The Fall of Hyperion braids them together into a singular narrative that fan...

Virtual hell.  It’s an expression used everyday, from street fighting in the Middle East to an awful day at work.  But what if it were act...

This is the first book I have read by Banks - and it won’t be the last.  His post-human vision of the very distant future, with its closer-...