Wisdom of Bookmonkey

Each month I make sure to read some science fiction, partially because I like a lot of the tropes: dystopias, Utopias, time and space travel...

So I picked up Joyce Carol Oates Hazards of Time Travel simply because I liked the title and I'd enjoyed her 1995 novel Zombie . The...

Last month I read Blake Crouch's Dark Matter for one of my book clubs, as a selection by my friend Ron. The novel (which I really e...

In Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland's 2017 novel The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.  mixes the speculative fiction concept of time-travel...

John Scalzi's follow up to his 2014 book Lock In continues to follow FBI Agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann as they examine an acciden...

Andy Weir's 2017 follow up to The Martian, Artemis follows the story of a young woman, Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara who works as ...

So here's the thing about perspective. For so many people Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty much the p...

One of the first posts I ever made for this blog focused on Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction epic Dune , which in many ways is th...

Reading Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land was a curious experience for me; on one hand, the ...

For me, the 1968 film Planet of the Apes exists almost as long as my childhood memories of science fiction, along with shows like Mork ...

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire , his 1952 follow-up to Foundation , continues where the last story left off; about three hundred...

With five titles left of my journey through David Pringle's Science Fiction: the 100 Best Books , I've just finished John Sladek...

Hitting my first science fiction novel of the 1980s on my list of David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Books: An English Lang...

Fair warning - I came to the Vorkosigan books late (they began in the late 80s, but I didn't start until the mid 2000s), and I'm a...

A little preamble; this is my fourth China Miéville book ( King Rat, The City and the City , and Kraken ), and with Embassytown , and a bi...

One of the things I enjoy best about reading Speculative fiction is the fact that more often than other most other genres it leads to thes...

Having now hit the year of my birth (1976) in my copy of David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Books published in English from 1...

So here's the thing - as a long-time fan of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction reading I have a sort of internal measurement in which...

Continuing through my survey of 1970s era Science Fiction, I've just finished Bob Shaw's 1975 novel Orbitsville, which I found to be...

Having worked my way through 80% of David Pringle's Science Fiction : The 100 Best Novels , I've read a lot of different types of SF...