Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Pitkä maa (The Long Earth #1)

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The discovery of a very simple device which enables travel to alternative realities changes the world. Most of the book tells the story of...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1971

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Hierarchies (Part 1 of 2) • [Interstellar Security] • serial by John T. Phillifent I was reading this magazine from a kind of shady digita...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Albert Camus: Rutto (The Plague)

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A famous, Nobel worthy book, which tells the story of the occupation of France as a metaphor. A plague spreads around a city. People react ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

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A collection of stories - most of them have been published somewhere earlier. Due to the number of the stories, I am not going to review al...

Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1956

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A pretty bad issue, with mostly mediocre stories that were past their time. Brightside Crossing • novelette by Alan E. Nourse A group t...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Qiu Xiaolong: Musta sydän (When Red is Black)

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Kolmas osa sarjaa, joka kertoo kiinalaisen poliisipäällikön tutkimuksista. Tällä kertaa tutkimuksia hoitaa pääosin Chen Cao:n alainen, Yu, ...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Haruki Murakami: Suuri lammasseikkailu

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An early book by Murakami, which has many themes of his later books. There is some fairly nice magical realism, but the book is not on the...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

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Heinlein’s juvenile story, which won the retro Hugo for 1950. It tells the story of a Boy Scout who moves with his father and his new wife...