Imagine a world run by giant lizards: lizards who wear clothes, drive cars, get married and form governments. Imagine that warm-blooded, scale-less human beings do not even exist. That is the reality which fights for existence when Raslan Saravanan, a human time traveller born in 2951 but living in the 1990s, makes a choice. The wrong choice. His decision rewrites history and allows alternative realities to become possible.
Book Review – The Reality War: The Slough Of Despond by Tim C. Taylor
27 Feb 2012 1 Comment
in Contemporary Fiction (21st Century), Sci-fi / Fantasy Tags: Greyhart Press, Pilgrim's Progress, Read! Review! Repeat!, Reality War, sci fi, scienc, Tim C Taylor, time travel, Time Traveler's Wife
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
23 Sep 2011 3 Comments
in 20th Century Fiction, Sci-fi / Fantasy Tags: Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, dystopia, Philip K Dick, sci fi, science fiction
I’m a big fan of sci-fi and dystopian novels. I love the way that a good writer can create a complete world of fantasy and then sell it to the reader as if it’s reality. I’m the perfect reader for this type of novel as I get completely absorbed and really believe in the story, however crazy it gets.
First published in 1968, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set in a future where Earth has been almost destroyed by war. Vast numbers of people have emigrated to Mars, but some have chosen to remain behind on Earth. Rick Deckard, the main character, is a bounty hunter living in San Francisco who tracks and ‘retires’ androids for a living. One day he gets his dream break and is given the chance to prove himself in his job, but the closer he gets to the androids he must destroy More
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
10 Jul 2011 4 Comments
in Contemporary Fiction (21st Century), Sci-fi / Fantasy Tags: dystopia, fantasy, Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns, sci fi, trilogy
This is another book I received recently from Waterstone’s ‘Read and Review’ offer. It’s also another example of how the scheme persuades me to read books I may not otherwise have picked up: while you obviously don’t have to put your name down for every book, it’s a great risk-free way to try something new (well, risk-free in terms of not spending any money on it… obviously there’s the risk of wasting your time reading it but I rarely hate a book that much).
Prince of Thorns is the first in a new trilogy of fantasy novels. Fantasy’s something I’ve not really tried before, although I love old sci-fi stories. This is supposedly a British alternative to A Game of Thrones: again, not something I’m too familiar with but that might give you a rough idea of what to expect. More