Treat yourself to some home cooked science fiction, with a bunch of recommended reads from the 1970s…
Were we heading in the right direction, as a species?
What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances?
Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home.
Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities.
More than that its the ultimate selling point.
The entire world has loud opinions about everything, including her impending death.
How far the world has degraded is difficult to tell.
He gains entry to what turns out to be an alien starship.
Reading this book is a horrible, mesmerising experience.
The only question left is is it interesting?
Its a plan that will show just how naive he is, and how much humanity has changed.
The anthropological angle is fascinating why have the inhabitants of the planet of Caean become obsessed with garment making?
Yes, it is as crazy as it sounds.
But its also quite a simple story at heart.
Peder Forbath, a tailor, rescues a sublime suit of Caean origin from a crashed spaceship.
The first sentence ofInverted Worldis a brilliant one.
If that makesThe Embeddingsound like a dense and involved read, I havent done it an injustice.
How these strands come together is fascinating and also very disturbing.
You have to be feeling brave to tackle this book.
Nobody has quite framed that thought as well as Douglas Adams, or with such lightness of touch.
He continues to define comic science fiction writing.
Jang represents youth, and in this place young people who are expected to have no sense of responsibility.
The hunt to find anything to make your life worth living dominates this book.
Even in a desert.
Jeff Waynes The War Of The Worlds: The Musical Drama is released on November 29 order it here.
