Singularity Sky is book in a new genre that Luke would like to call “Technobabble Opera”. Charles Stross has loads of great ideas, but do good ideas make a good book?
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Luke is sorry for not updating this blog feed for a week… this episode is a review of Learning The World, a book with a blog where someone apologizes for not keeping up to date with their blog. After a week of tonsillitis, Luke gets back to the shorter length of podcast.
After reading Frank Herbert’s Dune, Luke had so much to say that this episode is less of a review, and more of a discussion on what makes it such a great novel. With so much to talk about, Luke stopped recording after almost 30 minutes.
SFBRP #010 - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson - Hunters of Dune: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadNon-Frank-Herbert Sequel of Dune. Luke reads books like this one so you don’t have to.
SFBRP #009 - Carl Sagan - ContactSFBRP #009 - Carl Sagan - Contact: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe legendary science popularizer Carl Sagan turned his hand to science fiction. Luke, a fan of Carl Sagan’s other work, reviews a book he didn’t finish reading.
Luke likes stories that feature big things that float mysteriously in space. And Marrow is a book about just that topic, and a lot more besides.
A big book with big ideas means Luke runs long with his review of this chunky 2001 novel. You’ve got to love body armour and battles… but Luke wants a more human conclusion.
Luke reads and reviews a book from 1984 about the sixteenth century historical figure of Humphrey Gilbert and how, instead of drowning at sea, Humf was displaced through time by a secret government experiment.
Luke checks out the 2003 book set in Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space universe. A slightly longer podcast this time as Luke discovers it contains two novellas instead of one novel.
A classic time travel book from an undisputed master of science fiction, Robert A. Heinlein. Luke thought he had read this one before but he was wrong. Does this book, written in 1956, still hold up today?