Val's Random Comments

Although the most successful period in Pohl's career is probably the late 1970s when he won a number of Nebula and Hugo awards for novel...

In 1966 the novel Destination: Void was published. The story was about an experiment to create artificial intelligence, a crew sent out int...

This week has been a very demanding week so I am a little behind schedule on my current reading project. I may finish it this evening but I ...

I while ago I asked what would be a good place to start reading Asimov. Normally I can figure out a good place to start but this man's ...

Last year Cherie Priest had a big hit with her zombie steampunk novel Boneshaker . It got her award nominations and a deal for several more ...

Iron Council is the third book set in Miéville's Bas-Lag world. I read the The first novel, Perdido Street Station some years ago and ...

Trying out some new designs today so you may see some changes. I kinda like this template but I think it may need some more tinkering. As al...

I am making this Subterranean week retrospectively I guess. I wrote a review of this book right after it was published in 2008. Reading it e...

Ted Chiang is a remarkable author. He has only twelve published stories to his name, none of them exceeding The Lifecycle of Software Object...

Daniel Abraham must be a busy man. He's currently writing under several pseudonyms in several (sub) genres of speculative fiction and hi...