Exploring the vast universe of hard science fiction

Author: Mark

  • The Salvation Sequence series by Peter F Hamilton

    Salvation, Salvation Lost, and the Saints of Salvation by Peter F Hamilton The last decade or two have brought us the best science fiction ever written. The author Peter F Hamilton has come up again and again, but I was devouring Anne Leckie, Alastair Reynolds, and Adrian Tchaikovsky. I questioned how it could get better… Read more

  • House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

    If you are an Alastair Reynolds fan, as I am, you tend to really be an Alastair Reynolds fan. It’s hard science fiction, full of lofty physics and ideas that sometimes blow your mind. (Reynolds was a working astrophysicist before becoming an author.) House of Suns is one of those books; it reaches for the… Read more

  • Hello, shatterlings.

    This is my first post. An introduction seemed appropriate. But not about me – about what will eventually live here on these pages. I’ve always been an avid reader and science fiction fan. My earliest reading memories are of riding my bike up to the town library and checking out as many Tom Swift books… Read more