Aliens on Venus
Well, it’s not the planet we expected, but it might be the planet we get. Recent research has come out suggesting that our near neighbor Venus might be hiding a little more than we ever expected, i.e. alien life! Now …
Well, it’s not the planet we expected, but it might be the planet we get. Recent research has come out suggesting that our near neighbor Venus might be hiding a little more than we ever expected, i.e. alien life! Now …
TL:DR: 5 Stars. Read it. Love it. Buy the next one. Mark Lawrence is a genius. I’m pretty confident on that. I’ve read a lot of his stuff in the last year (I was pretty late to the Prince of …
If you thought Superman was tough, wait till you hear about this mould! In this week’s When Science Fiction Becomes Reality, I’m looking at an amazing mould which has been collected from Sverdrup Pass, Canada. This mould has been trapped under …
TL;DR 5/5 stars, dark, action-packed, gut-wrenching The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city’s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival …
TL;DR 4/5 stars, intrigue, action, worth reading Way back, in the land before time, I read some of Tad Williams’ traditional fantasy (it had a quest and a magic sword and a gawky boy and everything), so imagine my surprise …
This week in When Science Fiction Becomes Reality I want to talk about a very exciting, but also fun, project which IBM recently completed. They have made a movie by moving single atoms around to create a stop-motion animation: “A Boy and …
TL;DR It’s amazing, 5/5, buy it and read it now. Brandon Sanderson is probably one of my favorite authors. He’s one of the few writers that I will go out of my way to buy, even if it costs outrageous …
TL;DR It’s pretty good, thought provoking, but I’d only give it 4/5 stars. From Amazon: Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work – …
This week in When Science Fiction Becomes Reality I want to show you something very cool: light-bulbs made of bio-luminescent bacteria. What is it? Basically the idea is to have a light ‘bulb’ composed entirely of glowing bacteria. This system …
TL;DR – It’s good, five stars, go and read it. “Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good.” —Patrick Rothfuss A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him …