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Sorry Please Thank You

May 19, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Charles Yu’s new collection of stories features several stories with his trademark metafictional voice and sense of sad longing that comes wrapped up in all the new technology around us. A corporation that lets you outsource your emotions, the inner life of an MMORPG character, an excerpt from a guide for other species who are attempting to assimilate with humanity – it’s all perfectly strange and perfectly possible. The Review: I was coolly excited about Charles Yu’s […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Charles Yu, Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi, Short Stories, Sorry Please Thank You

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The Silent History

April 19, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Around the year 2011, children begin to be born without the ability for language. Over the next 30 years, humanity struggles to come to terms with its silent brethren: some reject them, others seek to be like them, and several seek to cure them. Told over the course of short interview-based installments, the oral history of the silent pandemic is a groundbreaking event in the history of the novel. The Review: So I am (if you haven’t […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: App, Eli Horowitz, Epistolary, Fiction, Field Reporters, Field Reports, iPhone, Kevin Moffett, Literature, Matthew Derby, Sci-Fi, The Silent History, YYYHHHQQQ

Transmetropolitan: Lonely City

April 9, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: So the Smiler won the election and Spider is feeling a bit gloomy. Still, there are stories to be discovered and Truth to be told – so he, along with his filthy assistants, continues about his merry way. But when he latches onto the story of a brutal beating on Dante Street, he suddenly finds himself smack in the middle of a perfect trap, laid out by maybe even the President himself… The Review: I’ve been impressed […]

Categories: Fiction, Sci-Fi • Tags: Darick Robertson, Dystopian, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Journalism, Lonely City, Patrick Stewart, Politics, Sci-Fi, Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis

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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man’s War #2)

March 22, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: After a Colonial Forces scientist goes rogue with the intent to start a war that would cripple humanity, the Special Forces of the CDF are tasked to find and stop him – but they carry with them a new recruit: a soldier with that traitor’s consciousness buried inside of him. When that second consciousness starts to awaken, it quickly becomes apparent that the Colonial Union has been keeping secrets of its own… The Review: Where Old Man’s War was […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Fiction, John Scalzi, Old Man's War, Sci-Fi, The Ghost Brigades

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Old Man’s War

March 20, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: After humanity begins to colonize the stars, Earth becomes a bit of a backwater planet – and the best way to get off of it, after having lived a full life, is to sign up for the Colonial Defense Force. No one knows how, exactly, they intend to take a fighting force of septuagenarians and defend a galactic mini-empire… but, then, there’s a LOT John Perry doesn’t know about what’s really happening out in space… The Review: Reader, I […]

Categories: Fiction, Sci-Fi • Tags: Fiction, John Scalzi, Old Man's War, Sci-Fi

Transmetropolitan: The New Scum

February 19, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: The election is in full swing and Spider Jerusalem is trying everything he can to swing it one way or the other. Problem is, both candidates hate him and the public – despite loving Spider and his work – doesn’t give a damn about the election. And that’s going to put Spider in a hell of a dangerous spot come election day. The Review: I needed a break from the book I’m currently reading, which is strangely rather […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Comics, Darick Robertson, Dystopian, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Journalism, Politics, Sci-Fi, The New Scum, Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis, Winter

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Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard

February 16, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Spider Jerusalem, firmly retrenched in the City, has been writing with his usual vitriol about any and everything – except the upcoming elections. But the time has finally come: the bastard is back, with a vengeance. The Review: Okay. Now things are starting to kick into a more proper gear – this is what I signed up for. I don’t think it’s any secret to anyone who even so much as looks at an issue of Transmet […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Darick Robertson, Dystopian, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Journalism, Sci-Fi, Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis

Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life

February 8, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Spider Jerusalem, back on the beat, manages to lose his assistant to a cult and get himself hunted by a bunch of assassins and cops and other angry ne’er-do-wells. All in a day’s work… The Review: Coming from the world of novel-novels, I’m still learning a bit about the Graphic Novel realm. I grew up with Jeff Smith’s amazing Bone (how have I not referenced that in all this time?) and that set a sort of standard […]

Categories: Fiction, Sci-Fi • Tags: Comic Books, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Lust for Life, Sci-Fi, Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis

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Angelmaker

December 17, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Once upon a time, there was a lady spy and a doomsday device. Then there was a gangster son of a clockmaker, who in turn had a son who wanted nothing to do with being a gangster. When the doomsday device is suddenly reactivated in the present and a swarm of mechanized bees who bring the truth descend on the world at large, it’s up to Joe Spork – who just wanted to work in clockwork – to […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Spy • Tags: Angelmaker, Fiction, Literature, London, Nick Harkaway, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Spy, Steampunk

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The Age of Miracles

August 24, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Without warning, the Earth’s rotation begins to slow down. At first, it’s not really noticeable… but as it continues and days literally turn into weeks, the human race is forced to adapt to a planet no longer hospitable. Meanwhile, young Julia is still just trying to navigate the minefields of being 11-turning-12 – and life does go on, even in the face of horrible realities. The Review: There’s a reference at one point in the novel to […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Apocalyptic, Fiction, Indiespensable, Karen Thompson Walker, Literature, Powell's, Sci-Fi, The Age of Miracles

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Sorry Please Thank You

The Silent History

Transmetropolitan: Lonely City

The Ghost Brigades (Old Man’s War #2)

Old Man’s War

Transmetropolitan: The New Scum

Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard

Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life

Angelmaker

The Age of Miracles

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