book-review
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 11, 2025
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, was first published in 1956 as “Tiger! Tiger!” Part Gulliver’s Travels, part Count of Monte Cristo, Bester’s hugely entertaining space opera is one of the classics of the Golden Age of SF. Continue reading
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Six novels take a serious look at alien communication, part 6: Ursula LeGuin, The Dispossessed
Here’s the last in my series of posts reviewing six SF novels with alien communication as a main plot point: The Dispossessed, Ursula LeGuin, 1974 LeGuin’s amazing book in her Hainish cycle won the Nebula (1974), Hugo, Locus, and Jupiter… Continue reading
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Six novels take a serious look at alien communication: Part 5, The Three-Body Problem
In this series of posts, I review six novels with alien communication as a main plot point: The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, 2006 (English translation by Ken Liu published in 2014) This novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin (using… Continue reading
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