Books

Another feaure of Harry Potter is the tuly amazing volume of fan fiction (fanfic for short) that have been written.[^1] It's getting close to overtaking Star Trek... [One…

The final book in the *Harry Potter* series will be released world wide this coming weekend. In the leadup (and afterwards) I'd expect a few thousand million posts…

To finish the unofficial [Hugo](http://www.nippon2007.us/hugo_nominees.php)-week on this blog, a recap of my thoughts on the five nominees for [Best Novel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel). The five nominees (with a link to my…

The [Hugo award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel) has been around for 54 years now. In that time it's generally been about the most reliable indicator of the best novels around. But there…

The final entry in my Hugo best novel review series for this year is *Blindsight* by Peter Watts. In the late 21st century humanity has reached almost incomprehensible…

[One hundred years ago](http://www.heinleincentennial.com/) today (July 7 1907) the greatest science fiction writer of all time was born. [Robert A. Heinlein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein) was a brilliant, controversial and innovative writer.…

Four hugo books down, one to go... The penultimate Hugo review for this year is *Eifelheim*, by Michael Flynn. This is a complex story, told in two time…

I took a quick break from my Hugo review series to read the latest from [John Scalzi](http://www.scalzi.com/). *The Last Colony* is a sequel to *Old Man's War* and…

Here's the third in my series of Hugo reviews for this year. I'm well on track to review them all before the 31 July deadline for voting. So…

The second in my series of Hugo nominated book reviews for this year, *Glasshouse*, by Charles Stross Robin doesn't know a lot about his past. That's partly because…