Unfolded Universe: Sci-Fi Book Reviews
Where every page holds a new universe…
Where every page holds a new universe…
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth opener has some brilliant ideas buried inside it, but getting through the first half requires patience that even War and Peace didn’t demand. A 3-star review that’s honest about the pacing problems, the gratuitously dark section, and whether it’s worth your time.
Imagine a world where dragon hoards are securitised into financial derivatives before anyone’s even swung a sword. Where orcs can …
Philip K. Dick was writing The Twilight Zone before The Twilight Zone existed. That’s not hyperbole. The ten stories collected …
Taylor Goes Standalone Having now worked my way through every single Dennis E. Taylor book in print, I can say …
There are books you enjoy, books you remember, and then there are books that quietly rewire something in you. The …
There’s a particular kind of science fiction that doesn’t just want to tell you a story. It wants to teach …
A funny, warm, inventive sci-fi comedy that lays the foundations for one of the great British comic universes. Grant Naylor’s Red Dwarf novel is essential reading for fans of Hitchhiker’s Guide and British sci-fi humour.
James S.A. Corey blends noir detective fiction with political space opera and a dose of genuine horror in Leviathan Wakes, the first Expanse novel. A confident, gripping start.
What happens when a recently deceased software engineer wakes up as a Von Neumann probe with a mandate to explore …
Sometimes a book grabs you by the collar in the first chapter and doesn’t let go until you’re blinking at …