Science Fiction Novel Reviews
The world is out of tune and hence the confusion (sorry for the joke). Dystopia is approaching because utopia was always too far away for a civilization like ours that increases exponentially in number as common identity decreases. Individualism is innate to being. ...
Post-apocalyptic fictions always pose a double aspect of possible total destruction and hope for rebirth. In this case, Fletcher also pulls the typical sketches that clarify how it got to that strange point where the survivors are in charge of rebuilding their world ...
There are authors who hide behind their best works. This is the case of Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, published in 1932, but with a timeless character, is that masterpiece that every reader recognizes and values. A transcendental science fiction novel that delves into the social and political, in...
Escaping to Long Island is never far enough for next to nothing. You can be an advantage if you just try to de-stress after a tough week of battle in New York City; but it is a bad plan if it is an end of the world, an apocalypse or ...
From George Orwell's Ministry of Love to the Ministry of Time, the recent series that triumphed on TVE. The question is to link ministries with dystopian, futuristic aspects and with a sinister point ... It will be a matter of the ministers developing dark tasks assigned in their leather briefcases ... The ...
The thrillers par excellence are dystopias of what can become. Because a dystopian approach always has a large sociological component. All exposed to the new order with its attempts of rebellion and its submission of fear. From George Orwell to Margaret Atwood a multitude of great writers ...
Reissues of suggestive works of science fiction in the absence of new stories with which to feed an imaginary between dystopian and post-apocalyptic in tune with the times. Only Margaret Atwood is not a regular science fiction writer. For her, the scenography accompanies the ideas more ...
Aviation is land (or rather sky) cultivated for juicy science fiction speculations. One need only remember the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, which so soon swallowed up ships like war fighters, or the langoliers of Stephen King that were devouring the Earth ...
Science fiction is sometimes not such. And it is also interesting when it comes to a resource, a staging or a simple excuse. For the writer Johannes Anyuru, landed in the novel with the spirit of exploration typical of his condition as a consolidated poet, the idea is to retake ...
Her good years would have passed from the release of the first part "Ready player One" until the Midas king of cinema, Spielberg took her to the cinema in 2018. The thing is that all this served so that the universe created by Ernest Cline will take off a lot beyond the …
These are strange times for Science Fiction. Great storytellers from around the world pull more frequently on this genre previously branded as marginal. All to find spaces for narration that can explain, precisely, our strange days. Not that Asimov or HG Wells were mindundies. But when they ...
It was 2019, the last year of the old era. Nora Roberts had just reoriented herself to the more dystopian narrative since the romances she had us used to. Of course, I could not even remotely imagine the real scenario with pre-apocalyptic overtones that, thanks to the current pandemic, flies over with ...