speculative fiction
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 6, 2025
Now to continue my advent calendar of great quotations from great speculative fiction. Here is one from a laugh-out-loud favorite of mine, John Scalzi’s Hugo and Locus Award short-listed novel Starter Villain (2023). From the invaluable TV Tropes web site:… 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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