TDW: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of those books I saw on Amazon popping up, but I never saw any coverage on social media or other outlets. Instead I read a single review on Goodreads by someone I followed that sold me immediately. It’s really quite crazy how much more important word of mouth […]
http://fantasticascifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Feautred-Planets-2.jpg6301500Thomashttp://fantasticascifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Fantastica-Logo-300x120.jpgThomas2016-01-31 13:13:222016-02-27 15:59:43What We're Reading: Children of Time
TDW: I don’t often read fantasy, but this was certainly an exception. It isn’t swords and sorcery, just swords. And pikes. And chemical warfare. In a word, it’s grimdark, easily my favourite branch of fantasy. In case you don’t know, grimdark fantasy gets its name from Warhammer 40,000, where, ‘In the grim darkness of the far […]
Every month we bring you five things that we think are cool. Because that’s how we roll. This month, to celebrate the release of The Martian, the discovery of flowing water on the red planet, and because it’s all-round pretty cool, we bring you 5 Cool Things, the Mars edition. 1. Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson […]
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 […]
http://fantasticascifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/3body.jpg300800Mark Riboldihttp://fantasticascifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Fantastica-Logo-300x120.jpgMark Riboldi2015-11-05 18:55:552015-11-05 19:56:23What we're reading: The Three Body Problem
Chris: Imagine if humans disappeared tomorrow. What would we leave behind? How long would it last? These questions are at the heart of The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It’s a book I mentioned in a list of Cool Things a few months ago, but I wanted to explore it further here. The setup reads […]
http://fantasticascifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/theworldwithoutus.jpg7601500Chrishttp://fantasticascifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Fantastica-Logo-300x120.jpgChris2015-10-30 06:35:222015-10-30 06:35:22What We're Reading: The World Without Us
TDW: Welcome to the first edition of Fantastica’s Writing Lessons, where we take examples of writing from popular media. Today we’re looking at Narcos, a Netflix original TV show. What can we learn from the story of Columbian narcos and the American agents sent to stop them?
What We’re Reading: Children of Time
/in Reviews /by ThomasTDW: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of those books I saw on Amazon popping up, but I never saw any coverage on social media or other outlets. Instead I read a single review on Goodreads by someone I followed that sold me immediately. It’s really quite crazy how much more important word of mouth […]
What We’re Reading: The Traitor
/in Reviews /by ThomasTDW: I don’t often read fantasy, but this was certainly an exception. It isn’t swords and sorcery, just swords. And pikes. And chemical warfare. In a word, it’s grimdark, easily my favourite branch of fantasy. In case you don’t know, grimdark fantasy gets its name from Warhammer 40,000, where, ‘In the grim darkness of the far […]
5 Cool Things: November 2015 (Mars Edition)
/in 5 Cool Things /by ChrisEvery month we bring you five things that we think are cool. Because that’s how we roll. This month, to celebrate the release of The Martian, the discovery of flowing water on the red planet, and because it’s all-round pretty cool, we bring you 5 Cool Things, the Mars edition. 1. Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson […]
What we’re reading: The Three Body Problem
/in Reviews /by Mark RiboldiLiu 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 […]
What We’re Reading: The World Without Us
/in Reviews /by ChrisChris: Imagine if humans disappeared tomorrow. What would we leave behind? How long would it last? These questions are at the heart of The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It’s a book I mentioned in a list of Cool Things a few months ago, but I wanted to explore it further here. The setup reads […]
Writing Lessons from … Narcos
/in Blog, Writing Lessons /by ThomasTDW: Welcome to the first edition of Fantastica’s Writing Lessons, where we take examples of writing from popular media. Today we’re looking at Narcos, a Netflix original TV show. What can we learn from the story of Columbian narcos and the American agents sent to stop them?