Cosmonaut Keep
First reviewed here in 2005 and read again in 2007
Category: Science Fiction
teapot?
The Fuller Memorandum
Third Laundry novel. Bloody good
eyes?
Time’s Eye
Alternative history/parallel world book, first of a trilogy.
OK
gates?
The Atrocity Archives
sopors?
Mockingbird
Intriguing science fiction from the author of The Hustler and The Color Of Money.
It’s a few hundred years in the future and a mankind coddled by robots and lulled into drugged sterility – both mental and physical is dwindling to it’s last generation until a man in Ohio learns to read..
Raising so many ideas about the nature of humanity and the burdens of artificial intelligence this is really a very good bit of science fiction.
sap?
Boneshaker
It’s got everything you’d ever want – a steampunk setting in Seattle, with zombies and airship pirates, oh and a kickass female protagonist who’s handy with a shotgun…
gospodin?
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
When I first read this, Heinlein’s last truly great book, I was blown away. Of course I was a pre-pubescent teenager at the time. While this remains a vastly entertaining romp, sadly it’s dated badly by some bizarre sexual politics and heavy handed political theorizing.
yagai?
Beggars In Spain
A near masterpiece work of science fiction.
fucus?
The Drowned World
An extraordinarily powerful novel, The Drowned World takes place in a future where the greenhouse effect has transformed Northern Europe into a flooded tropical swamp.
The atmosphere of malaise and decay is utterly convincing and I feel haunted by it.
This is one the finest books I’ve ever read and I get the feeling this will linger in the memory for a long time.
Recommended without hesitation.
teapot?
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut