Mark: Life is Strange is a completely charming episodic graphic adventure game by Square Enix, the Japanese company best known for the Final Fantasy roleplaying series. The game has won plenty of awards and featured in multiple Best Of 2015 lists. A ‘time-travelling teenager girl simulator‘ is the best short description I’ve seen.
Liu Cixin’s 2015 Hugo Award Winning Novel The Three-Body Problem, translated from Chinese into English by Ken Liu, is a book that’s so big on ideas and themes you can easily forgive the occasional uninspired dialogue and exposition dumping. Exiled to a remote radio base during the Cultural Revolution, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie makes contact with an alien […]
MR: Walking the line between science fiction and horror, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation is a fabulous read exploring the inevitable futility behind clutching to reason, science, and civilisation. It won the 2014 Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Novel. The story follows one of the members of the twelfth expedition sent into the abandoned and […]
Fantastica crew member Mark reflects on reading Ursula Le Guin’s 1975 ‘The Dispossessed’, a science fiction classic examining capitalism, anarchism and most things in-between. MR: The first Ursula Le Guin book I picked up was A Wizard of Earthsea. I was 10 at the time and obsessed with fantasy.
‘The secrets gusted about the streets with the leaves and litter, thick enough in the air to choke me.’ This one sentence is a good indication of both the style and the substance of Margo Lanagan’s Sea hearts, published in the US and UK as The Brides of Rollrock Island. There’s something very claustrophobic about […]
Every month we bring you five things that we think are cool. Because that’s how we roll/ You may also have this opinion once you check them out. Are you aware of cool things yourself? Let us know below!
Every month we bring you five things that we think are cool. Because that’s how we roll/ You may also have this opinion once you check them out. Are you aware of cool things yourself? Let us know below!
There are very few books I read with my Last Wednesday All Boys Bookclub (LWABB) which don’t end up dog-eared. In preparation for two hours of fierce conversation I’m often on the look out for choice lines and turns of phrase to drop into the conversation. My favourite quote from Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, for […]
Every month we bring you five things that we think are cool. Because that’s how we roll/ You may also have this opinion once you check them out. Are you aware of cool things yourself? Let us know below!
The beginning of May brings the promise of 5 things you didn’t know you didn’t know. Thomas – Space Elevator Ever since that scene in Red Mars I’ve been enthralled by the idea of a space elevator. Of course the idea is still a good while off, but it will be that pivotal moment in our […]