Tag Archives: sci fi

Farewell to Yesterday’s Tomorrow by Alexei Panshin

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Michelle

Sci Fi short stories by Alexei Panshin range from off color humor to self-indulged what-if stories. I really liked the book. Several of the short stories deal with a selection of colonized planets and their generation ship custodians. Oddly enough, … Continue reading →

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Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Michelle

I’ve read this book before (English Major), so this isn’t really a review. 1984 follows Winston Smith, an Ingsoc Party member on a journey of self-discovery and subsequent re-brainwashing and breaking. Whenever I read this book I am absolutely struck … Continue reading →

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Things I’m Not Doing

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Michelle

Sweeping Epic Gothic! That’s how best to describe Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates…a book I’m no longer reading because the prose drowns you. Drowns I tell you. I made it one third of the way through the book and couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Fronterra by Lewis Shiner

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Michelle

This book should have all the trappings of a space adventure. And it does: covered in the slimy muck of dystopian angst. I know he’s considered a cyberpunk great but this novel, surrounded by trappings of cyberpunk, leaves that setting … Continue reading →

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Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Michelle

Anna is a young genius but unlike her family’s musical genius she’s more into math. This starts getting weird when she finds her exact twin during a shopping trip. Between a weird music teacher (never explained) and the strangely run … Continue reading →

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