Book Review: Space Taxis, Adam and Harriet Frosh Science Fiction: Space Taxis, Adam and Harriet Frosh Blog Tour March 17, 2021 With a title like Space Taxis I was expecting a humorous sci-fi romp. I was not expecting a book of surprising depth and heart that gave both an alternate history of earth and […]
Book Review: Interference, Sue Burke Science Fiction: Interference, Sue Burke Some time ago we reviewed Semiosis by Sue Burke. She has now written a worthy sequel to that book which moved us so much. Many years have passed on the planet Pax. The humans, Glassmakers, and Svetland all live together in reasonable […]
Book Review: Children of God, Mary Doria Russell Science Fiction: Children of God, Mary Doria Russell In her first book, The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell tells the story of a tragically doomed mission to Rahkat, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system with not one but two intelligent species coexisting in a very […]
Book Review: The Last Emperox, The Interdependency Book 3, John Scalzi Science Fiction: The Last Emperox, The Interdependency Book 3, John Scalzi In the first two books of his Interdependency trilogy, John Scalzi has introduced readers to the empire and its reliance on “the flow,” the poorly understood force that transports ships across vast […]
Book Review: Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis Science Fiction: Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis What if your father were the most notorious “leaker” in history? Take Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and multiply the impact of their revelations by 1000. That may approach the impact of the world learning about the Obelus Event. A […]
Book Review: Network Effect, The Murderbot Diaries Book 5, Martha Wells Science Fiction: Network Effect, The Murderbot Diaries Book 5, Martha Wells Murderbot is back! Scintilla has previously reviewed the four novellas in the Murderbot series, novellas which individually or collectively have won almost every science fiction award available. Now, in the […]
Book Review: The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell Science Fiction: The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell Some books pose as one genre, but are really quite something different when you get behind the cloak they wear. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell is just such a book. On the surface it is a science fiction […]
Book Review: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. Science Fiction: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. Originally published 61 years ago, A Canticle for Leibowitz is now regarded as a classic in science fiction. Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s dystopian vision of a post apocalyptic earth is actually a compilation […]
