[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”]In the foreword of The Carpet Makers, Orson Scott Card tells us how he attended a science-fiction convention in France where all everyone would talk about was the new German author Andreas Eschbach. Unfortunately, his…
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[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”]I had an absolute blast reading The Three-Body Problem. To begin with, this is the first Chinese book I’ve ever read, and second, Cixin Liu is advertised as one of the most prominent Science-Fiction writer…
[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”]The Stories of Ibis is a stunning collection of sci-fi short stories by Japanese author Hiroshi Yamamoto. In a near future, the remnant of humankind fights a well-flourished machine civilization for survival. The book starts…
[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”] This is the fourth stop of the Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour: first was the worrying Porteur d’âme, followed by the sad Mockingbird, then the depressing Solaris, and now I lack words to properly…
[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”] I don’t really know how to talk about Solaris. It was a fascinating book with strong philosophical insights, but it was also utterly depressing, and it might not have been the best moment for…
[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”] Mockingbird is everything I love in science-fiction: it’s smart, it’s epic, and it makes you think. This classic Sci-Fi novel takes us to a bleak futuristic New York in which machines replaced human labour force, from the bus driven by a…
[widgets_on_pages id=”Science-Fiction & Fantasy World Tour”] Pour cette première étape du du Tour du Monde de la SF et du Fantastique, j’ai décidé de tout simplement poser mes valises là où je suis née, en France. J’avais très envie de…