Category Archives: Science fiction and fantasy

Kate Mosse came to fame in 2006 with the prize-winning international best-seller Labyrinth. I read that and enjoyed it; like so many doorstop novels of the time concerning complex historical mysteries involving religion and with a dash of added fantasy, … Continue reading →

Anne McCaffrey is of course most famous for writing the award-winning Dragonflight (first published as a novel in 1968) and the long series of sequels which followed it, although she has also written or co-authored several other series. I reviewed … Continue reading →

This is the first novel set in Asaro’s award-winning and continuing Skolian Empire series. I posted a general review of the series on this blog in July 2007 and a review of another of the novels, The Ruby Dice, in … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago I posted a review of a non-fiction book by Stephen Webb: Where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox . In this book, the author considers the Fermi Paradox; that given the number of … Continue reading →

Mission to Mars had in some way averted showing on my radar till I spotted it on the Television schedules just lately, so I believed it might be worth a seem. The plot is simple (spoiler warning!): a manned mission … Continue reading →