Category: Books

In other worlds

This is 3 short stories in one book. Fire and Ice is set in the League novel world, with the Assassins. Adron is an ex-Assassin. He was left for dead and as a result is severely crippled. Livia is the daughter of the Vistan ruler; making her a princess. She is scheduled to marry a […]

Annihilation.

Find the film review here. This was a book I read after seeing the film adaption. Obviously this meant that my imagining of certain aspects were severely influenced by the visuals in the film. I did find however that the novel doesn’t actually contain a lot of descriptions of anything, given the beautiful graphics in […]

The Bach Manuscript.

Written by Scott Mariani, The Bach Manuscript is an adventure novel, I went for something a little different. This was such a good choice! Ben Hope is former SAS. He visits one of his university friends who is a musician in Oxford. Nick is found dead and Ben decides to get involved with the investigation; […]

The Medusa Chronicles

The Medusa Chronicles was written by Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds with the inspiration of A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clark. This book is very complex with a series of flash backs that span several hundred years. The main character is Commander Howard Falcon. He becomes a cyborg as a result of a serious […]

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