Mostly Sci-Fi...Mostly
Richard Helmling is a novelist and poet who jumps from crafting science fiction yarns to writing thinky literary fare and then back to sci-fi again.
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There’s a reason it’s the Last Contract of Isako
Okay, rule of cool--cyberpunk samurai in a lost-colony company town? Okay, sign me up--buys this book a lot of grace, but you know what bothers me: When you have to have other characters tell your character: “You’re the best X...”
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Surprisingly Good Sci-Fi
I saw a TikTok recommending this multiverse movie and I thought: What the heck!
Have you ever read Dark Matter or seen its TV adaptation? That show uses the conceit of multiversal travel to ask: What if you met yourself…and you were an ass...
Seveneves
This book is so, so long. And I’m finally finished it. Now I want to mount it on my wall.
Not as a trophy. But, like, out of spite. I want its bloody carcass haphazardly pinned to my wall.
There are so many ways I hated this book.
First...
On reading Samantha Harvey's Orbital
I think this book is mislabeled. It has very little claim to being a novel.
Yes, it has characters. In this case, six souls aboard the International Space Station. But there is no story. No plot. Nothing happens. We follow this crew throug...
A Literary Giant Goes Sci-Fi
Ian McEwan’s latest What We Can Know, like his masterpiece Atonement, deals with the intersection of the personal and the literary. Here, though, he begins with a mystery of literary scholarship and delves deep into the secrets of a renowne...
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