On Science Fiction

I approached Anathem with some caution. By the end, I was taking a document about its philosophy to a festival so I could spend a little longer in its world.

Snow Crash is absurd, loud, deeply weird, and somehow still full of ideas that escaped into the real world.

I've just finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and I devoured it in just a few days. It’s one of those books that grabs your imagination from the start and doesn’t let go until the last page.

Echopraxia took me from March to June to finish. The prose was a slog, but its ideas and annotations kept me reading. A recommendation for hard-SF readers who value intellectual challenge over a smooth narrative.

A rare specimen of damn strong science fiction, without the slightest bows toward adventure literature.

Snow outside? Try another door. Pete the cat holds his human responsible for the weather and insists on checking all eleven doors for a way into summer.