January and February are Sci-Fi Experience months, and encouraged by Carl’s invitation to participate, I eagerly signed up!
I managed to get through a good few books, and managed to find a new favourite author in John Scalzi. My only real disappointment, was that I didn’t get to read, Speaker for the Dead. I’ve [...]

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
Last year when I was really starting to find my feet in the book blogosphere, this book was starting to get some serious coverage, and very complimentary comments, and these only gained momentum, for it’s US release date last October.
Well here in the UK, [...]

No one noticed the rock.
So, begins The Ghost Brigades, the excellent sequel to, John Scalzi’s, Old Man’s War, and there’s no gentle start to this one, we are launched straight into the action, with little or no exposition (at least at the start  – although it does come in spades later, and its for [...]

It was a pleasure to burn.
Thanks to the Decades ‘09 challenge and Carl V’s Science Fiction Experience, I this week read one of those books that can be defined as a ‘classic’.
I thinks most people know the basic plot of this book, so I’m going to be lazy and quote from the blurb:
Guy Montag was [...]

Carl from Stainless Steel Droppings, is hosting the Out of This World mini-challenge this weekend as a part of both the Sci-Fi Experience and the challenge in Dewey’s memory. The idea is just to read at least one Science Fiction short story over the weekend. Carl even provides a link to a fabulous online [...]

Carl from Stainless Steel Droppings, is hosting the Out of This World mini-challenge this weekend as a part of both the Sci-Fi Experience and the challenge in Dewey’s memory. The idea is just to read at least one Science Fiction short story over the weekend. Carl even provides a link to a fabulous online [...]

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the army.

It’s Sci-Fi Experience time and the first book too make it to the top of the reading pile, is one I’d seen warmly received and commented on all over the place since I joined the book blog-o-sphere, enough [...]

I can happily sign up to this one in the full knowledge that it is most certainly not another challenge!
Carl describes it thus:
As I said last year, this is an experience and not a challenge. There are no reading lists, book requirements, etc. I do not argue about what is or is [...]