Few books make me sigh and despair at the tightening grip of age and the decay of hope as this one did. Ursula K LeGuin's tale, Planet of Exile, tells the story of two races under the threat of a multitude

Home was an apartment. It was up three flights of unforgiving, weathered stairs – if the lift was broken. His had a single bedroom. Cold in the winter. Hot in the summer. Dark at night, somehow, still

Billboards ran through sequences of marketing that was vapid and uninspiring, for products nobody needed. They illuminated the halls of the train station with their rainbow light, as he scurried along

Welcome 💖 Bienvenidos ! [Spanish Version] Sentencia Previa - Un futuro distópico || Reseña y opinión Hace días mientras escroleaba las películas que estaban en pantalla, apareció Sentencia Previa, esta

He sat in the café. He looked at his laptop bag, and back to the cooling cup of coffee. Steam quietly drifted upward in the cold winter day. His job interview had gone well, he thought. It didn’t feel

The building was a long-forgotten memory, clinging to an otherwise quiet, modern street filled with structures of steel, glass, concrete and ambition. A single block from the bustling central boulevard,

Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams maintains surprisingly good production values throughout - even if "The Commuter" starts with a great snapshot of contemporary, budget British life, with Tesco

For the last few weeks, the writing of Jeff Van Der Meer, and their mysterious Area X has dominated my thought, and my reading, and even my movie watching. It all began with Annihilation (the book!) which

While Adrian Tchaikovsky has a name that is very hard to say, his writing in Children of Time is sublime, with an excellent flow. Each chapter, the perspective swaps between two different stories. As it

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When I (definitely) read Ender's Game as a kid, I probably thought it was a cool story about a kid getting good at war training, military moves, and strategy. As an adult, this is what the novel starts

When I queued up "For Us, The Living", I had no idea what to expect beyond the book's basic synopsis: man goes driving in 1939. Man crashes car. Man (apparently) dies. Man wakes up. It's 2086.

Hello, readers. Among the five Hugo Award finalists (all women this year), three stories in the short story category left a strong impression on me. Why don't we just kill the kid in the Omelas hole? by

I don’t believe in coincidences. Recently, I read an article by @tarazkp reflecting on the contrasting dichotomy of gain/well-being. I had intended to write an article about the finalists for the Hugo

Having finished the series "Remembrance of the Earth's Past" by Liu Cixin (author of the Three Body Problem - on which the recent TV series was based) - I noticed in my library's app that there

If you've not been following my attempts to read more stuff, you may not be aware that I recently got through the Three Body Problem in audio book form, and well, I was impressed. It was a surprise, then;

Having emerged from the disquieting revelations of "The Three-Body Problem," stepping into Cixi Liu's "The Dark Forest" feels like bracing for an inevitable storm of war. This sequel

Having finally turned the (audiobook's) last page of Cixin Liu's "The Three-Body Problem," the sheer scope and audacity of the narrative continue to resonate. This first contact scenario unfolds

"Ah, these?" Neon Nixie holds up a hand, the mechanical digits flexing with a soft whir. "They're a reminder of a past I'd rather leave behind.

Welcome 💖 Bienvenidos It is a prequel to The hole, a horror and science fiction film released in 2024 that I saw recently because I just found out about its existence, since I saw the first one I was