1984 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award Winner (Review contains no spoilers)The setting of this story is in the far future at a point where humanity has developed genetic engineering to the point where we have "uplifted" chimpanzees, and most recently dolphins, to human-like intelligence. Humanity has also expanded from the solar system and discovered ( Read more... )

1979 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award Winner (Review contains minor spoilers)This story is set in some indeterminate desert location on Earth in the indeterminate future, after an apocalypse and humanity has mostly returned to approximately the equivalent of the Medieval period, with one or two hold-out bastions of advanced technology capable of things ( Read more... )

1978 Nebula Award Winner (Review contains major spoilers)This was one of the first books that I read in the e-book format on an iPad, and that was probably seven years ago. At the time I was still dead-set on obtaining physical copies of every book so I didn’t think it really “counted” for this challenge. Well recently I’ve been getting into the ( Read more... )

Well, for something different I feel moved to write a bit about the movie Blade Runner 2049, that I was fortunate enough to see last Friday night. Even getting there was a bit of an issue, but I somehow ended up in Gold Class, sitting in a reclining seat right down the front left of the movie theatre. Comfortable, it would have been a literal pain ( Read more... )

Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ( Read more... )

The Demolished Man
1953 Hugo Award Winner (Review contains spoilers)

This one was a pretty quick read, only 180 pages, though the type was tiny. Overall it was an enjoyable read, cute for all that some parts have dated, and more fiction than science, but mostly enjoyable.

The setting is in the future, at a time when mankind has settled much of the ( Read more... )

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsI thought I'd take a break from the award Sci-Fi novels to read a bit of pulp, if that's what it is. Pop then? Well I hate following popular trends, but I really liked the movie of The Hunger Games and wanted to know more. And for my B'day Kim was nice enough to get me the three books in the series, why not jump ( Read more... )

Neuromancer by William Gibson 1985 Hugo & Nebula Award Winner ( Read more... )

A Case of Conscience by James Blish (review contains spoilers ( Read more... )

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman ( Read more... )