Starfish by Peter Watts In a future overpopulated and under-resourced Earth, a geothermal energy plant has been constructed in a trench thousands of miles under the Pacific Ocean’s surface. The humans of the maintenance crew who live and work in and around the power station have been genetically engineered to withstand the harsh deep-sea environment. […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Peter Watts | Audio, Horror | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Blindsight by Peter Watts This is ‘hard science fiction’ in the truest sense of the term — hard science concepts, hard-to-understand writing at times, and hard-edged philosophy of mind and consciousness. Peter Watts aggressively tackles weighty subjects like artificial intelligence, evolutionary biology, genetic modification, sentience vs intelligence, first contact with aliens utterly different from humanity, […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 5 | Peter Watts | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Echopraxia by Peter Watts I was extremely impressed by Peter Watts’ Blindsight (2006), a diamond-hard sci-fi novel about first contact, AIs, evolutionary biology, genetically-engineered vampires, sentience vs intelligence, and virtual reality. It is an intense experience, relentless in its demands on the reader, but makes you think very hard about whether humanity’s sentience (as we […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 0.1 | Peter Watts | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts Having never read one of Peter Watts’ novels before, I thought a short novel like The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018) would be a good place for me to start. After all, I like science fiction, generation-style ships, rogue AIs, and solid narratives about mutinous crews. Watts delivers on those elements […]
Read MoreJana Nyman´s rating: 2 | Peter Watts | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Theodore Sturgeon Award will be given to one lucky author at next weekend’s Campbell Conference Awards Banquet in Lawrence, Kansas. The banquet caps both the Writers Workshop in Science Fiction and the Novel Writers Workshop in Science fiction, and is the kick-off event for the Intensive English Institute on the Teaching of Science Fiction. […]
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Sharing our finds in free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. “The Likely Lad” by Kage Baker (2002, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Starship Sofa podcast #23) Kage Baker is one of my favorite authors. I love her sense of humor and sardonic voice. She’s at it again in “The Likely Lad,” a funny novelette that you can […]
Read MoreKat Hooper, Tadiana Jones and Marion Deeds | Kage Baker, Ken Liu, Peter Watts | Audio, Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 edited by Rich Horton I’ve been reading a lot of anthologies lately, including another of the several “Year’s Best” collections (the Jonathan Strahan one). I was pleased to find that, unlike some of the others, this one matched my tastes fairly well for the most part. I […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan´s rating: 4 | Angélica Gorodischer, Carrie Vaughn, Christopher Barzak, Harry Turtledove, Ian R. MacLeod, James Patrick Kelly, K.J. Parker, Karin Tidbeck, Ken Liu, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Madeline Ashby, Maria Dahvana Headley, Maureen McHugh, Peter Watts, Theodora Goss, Yoon Ha Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
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