From the category archives:

Science Fiction

I read a lot of science fiction novels and many of my friends and family use these recommendations to decide what to read next.

Rollback by Robert J Sawyer

April 20, 2008

Rollback is on the final ballot for best novel in the Hugo awards this year, and it’s going against John Scalzi’s The Last Colony (the end of the Old Man’s War ‘trilogy’). If I had to pick between the two, even though I love Scalzi’s work and the OMW series, Rollback would win, but it’s [...]

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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein – Cams #1

April 19, 2008

Today I finally reveal my #1 all time favorite science fiction novel. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein. Why did it win? Because it’s the first SciFi novel I ever read. It started me on this wonderful journey, introduced me to this new world that some people call “reading” and thus here [...]

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FlashForward by Robert J Sawyer

April 15, 2008

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 [...]

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A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge – Cams #2

April 15, 2008

Some modern science fiction novels have awesome new technologies, some have awesome stories and others have great characters, but as we’ve debated here, rarely are they all combined into one compelling, cohesive and thrilling story. This is that rare book that I use to judge all other “high tech” science fiction novels against. A Deepness [...]

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Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer

April 14, 2008

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, [...]

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Earth Abides by George R Stewart – Cams #3

April 13, 2008

Well, we’re finally into the top 3 of my all-time favorite science fiction novels. This is probably the point where you all really start to disagree with me, but c’est la vie. Earth Abides by George R Stewart tells the story of one solitary man who survives a global, but short-lived plague by pure chance. [...]

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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman – Cams #4

April 11, 2008

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 [...]

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Gateway by Frederik Pohl – Cams #5

April 8, 2008

Number 5 on my all-time favourite novels list is Gateway by Frederik Pohl. This is a hard read for many people due to its use of flash-backs, but the fact that it won the Hugo, Nebula and John W Campbell awards means should at least be up for consideration in any top 10 list. The [...]

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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

April 7, 2008

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 [...]

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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem

April 1, 2008

A big thanks to Steve Eley over at EscapePod for letting me know about Stanislaw Lem. Last year when I started working back through his archives on my new iPod I came upon episode #47 (Poet for Hire). In the intro Steve talked about Mr. Lem and his book about two competing, sentient, robotic inventors: [...]

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Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

March 26, 2008

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 [...]

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