Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 827 times
Well, since I’m on a book review roll here, I might as well review another book I read this summer (mostly on the train to and from Oslo). “Pushing Ice” is one of the books by Alastair Reynolds who does not take place in the Revelation Space universe. It was published in 2005. Summary: The [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 692 times
Revelation Space is the first of (so far) five Sci-Fi books by Alastair Reynolds that take place in the same universe, but only book one (Revelation Space) and book three (Redemption Ark) are about the same people. Reynolds have also written several other Sci-Fi books in other variations of a future universe. Reynolds has a [...]
Posted in Books, Sci-Fi on Sep 29th, 2009 | Viewed 661 times
I’m currently reading the “Altered Carbon” trilogy by Richard K. Morgan. (On the second book at the moment.) This is high quality Sci-Fi. Raw and brutal and yet it makes you wonder how the future of humanity will turn out. In Morgan’s universe human consciousness is stored in a small chip at the back of [...]
Posted in Movies, Sci-Fi on Sep 15th, 2009 | Viewed 484 times
Hmm, where to start … Now this is one odd movie. It is sort off a story about racism and segregation/apartheid, and is actually set in South Africa. The suffering part here are aliens. They arrive in a spacecraft, and for some reason unknown, or maybe not picked up by me, they cannot take care [...]