Tag: Shelf A1
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Review: Consider Phlebas
The genre of space opera has gone through many ups and downs. Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke worked to ground their grand storytelling with scientific ideas. A bunch of folks like Roger Zelazny and Philip K. Dick in the new wave pushed back with more emotional and psychological concepts. George Lucas shook things up…
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Review: The Peripheral
In case it’s not obvious, William Gibson is one of my favorite authors. Coming off the excellent “Blue Ant” trilogy, we had to wait only a few years for The Peripheral, published in 2014. That wouldn’t be the case for the followup, Agency, but that’s another review. The Peripheral divides its story into two futuristic…
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Review: The Last Wild Horses
There have been a couple of sci-fi books involving horses lately. I was recommended Maja Lunde’s The Last Wild Horses and it did not disappoint. The Norwegian author is best known for her first book, The History of Bees, which won numerous awards. Here she is again telling three separate but interrelated stories, each taking…