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So I’m on a scifi binge again… only this time it’s Robert J Sawyer’s stuff. After reading Calculating God I moved on to FlashForward and am now on the verge of finishing Rollback (review soon… but it’s GOOD). I’ve got more of his books on my shelf that are unread, so this streak may continue [...]

Aliens with scientific proof that God exists? What’s the catch? Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer is a novel set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Royal Ontario Museum. That alone makes it cool in my books, so all you Americans can take this review with a grain of salt. I’ve been to the ROM, [...]

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman nearing the top of my all time favourite scifi books at number 4. As is true for most of my list, it won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. It’s been a long time since I last re-read this book — it was one of the first science [...]

I read I Am Legend several months ago,… and it is a fast paced, relentless story about the end of mankind as we know it. I don’t know about you but there’s something about an “end of the world, we’re all screwed and it’s all thanks to our own arrogance” story which is kind of [...]

When I find an author I like I tend to binge and read their whole backlog of novels in short order. For Wilson I started with The Chronoliths (a 4/5), then progressed to Spin (my #9 and a 5/5), Axis (3/5) and now Darwinia. In this novel all of 1915 Europe is replaced by savage [...]