Jalapeno Score: 37/50 Overall Impression: “The Long Way to F*n Nowhere…” Don’t get me wrong, I think Becky Chambers is a talented writer, I really do. I think she has ideas and active imagination. But there is something fundamentally lacking in the book, and it is plot. Imagine you started building the house from the […]
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“Planetfall” Book Review [Jalapeño Fiction Award] Emma Newman
Jalapeno Score: 39/50 Overall Impression: Reading Planetfall instilled controversial feelings in me. I am going to write this review with some spoilers, because I don’t think I can otherwise express myself properly. If you read other reviews, there are some people who did not like the controversial aspects of the story, and you can decide […]
“Snowfall on Mars” Book Review [Jalapeño Fiction Award] Branden Frankel
Read Exclusive Interview with Branden Frankel! Jalapeno Score: 42/50 Overall Impression: Oh so sad, melodramatic, and dreary this “Snowfall on Mars” is. And I loved it. It had a decent amount of terraformation science, hardships on a hostile planet, quirks of a degraded and disillusioned society, religious cult extremes reminiscent of Holocaust or Jonestown massacre, gripping […]
“Dark Orbit” Book Review [Jalapeño Fiction Award] Carolyn Ives Gilman
Jalapeno Score: 47/50 Overall Impression: Remember the first time you watched the ‘Matrix’? Remember, how that movie messed with your perception of the reality? This is the analogy that came to my mind when I read the “Dark orbit”, a visionary sci fi novel by Carolyn Ives Gilman. “Dark Orbit” is a strong contender in the […]
Top 10 Pop Philosophers in 2015? You Will Be Shocked!
Who influences our thinking? Donald Trump? Caitlyn Jenner? J.K. Rowling? Jesus? No, No and No. According to The Telegraph (2015), these 10 spectacular personalities. Apparently, the criteria for the selection was “based on social media followers, number of books published, media appearances, catch phrase creation, amount of viral memes and fan base nicknames”. If you, like myself, […]
Strictly Sci Fi: 2015 Novels
To stargazers and techies, To book grazers and skimmers, To starship and AI dreamers, To E.T. chasers and time travelers, To warp engineers and string theorists, To black hole and Higgs Bozon scholars, To dark matter and dark energy ponderers, And to all of us, awe struck with the science and poetry of the universe, […]