Redshirts by John Scalzi is one of those stories which are difficult to review, without spoiling, but I’m going to try. The story takes place in post-television 25th century future on an elite DubU ship – Intrepid. It is under the command of captain Abernathy, whose crew include science officer Q’eeng, first office Keerensky, medical [...]
Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category
“It’s fictional. You’re real”
Posted: 4th July 2012 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Books, funny, John Scalzi, novels, People, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Star Trek
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Every Light Cast a Shadow…
Posted: 6th January 2012 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science FictionTags: Audible, Audible.com, Books, Fantasy, Literature, novels, personal, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
A good vs. evil story with an elaborate magic system, set on the background of intriguing political & religious landscape with enough twists and turns to keep you occupied. What else could a fantasy fan want? Brent Weeks brings the first book of his Lightbringer trilogy “into the light” – The Black Prism. He brought it [...]
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson…
Posted: 26th December 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Mystery, Personal Stories, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, SteampunkTags: Audible.com, Books, Brandon Sanderson, Fantasy, Literature, Mystery, novels, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Steampunk, The Alloy of Law
This review is rather late, but the vast reading list I had during later half of 2011 and the release of Battlefield 3 game caused this delay. I was able to finish The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson during my vacations. Absolutely amazing. The Alloy of Law takes place 3 centuries after The Well [...]
The Other Tolkien…
Posted: 16th July 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, Children's, English, Fantasy, General, LiteratureTags: angela Gardner, Black, Book, Books, first, Jeff Murray, Literature, Lord of the Rings, Ogres, personal, Reading, Signed, Tolkien, White, Witches
We all know the JRR Tolkien as an author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Many, including me, never knew that Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien, JRR’s younger brother, as an author. At least, he was when he was young. In 2008, a small 88 page book was released titled Black and White [...]
Magic is magic … Bramble is bramble …
Posted: 27th June 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science FictionTags: Alchemyst, Audible, Audible.com, Books, Bramble, Executioness, Fantasy, general, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, Literature, Magic, METAtropolis, novels, Paolo Bacigalupi, rare, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, SF&F, Tobias Buckell, water
In Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Alchemyst and Tobias Buckell’s The Executioness we meet characters from the world where bramble has taken over fertile farm lands and use of magic is punishable by death. Once a glorious and prosperous world, where magic was practiced freely; now has bramble everywhere. Bramble has strange affinity to magic; it roots [...]
Keep writing John, and they will come …
Posted: 16th May 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science, Science FictionTags: Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
Few years back, Audible Frontiers did an experiment – METAtropolis. This was a collection of 5 novellas about our future. John was the editor for these five stories. That was the (audio)book that introduced me to John Scalzi. Needless to say, I enjoyed his story. So when Powells Books event showed up on my calendar [...]