Tag: science fiction

  • Six Amazing Classic Science Fiction Books

    A compilation of classic science fiction books to indulge in on Science Fiction Day.

  • Celebrating Arabic Literature on Arabic Language Day

    Arabic Language Day is December 18 in honor of the 1973 decision to make Arabic an official UN language.

  • Octavia Butler: The Godmother of Science Fiction

    Octavia Estelle Butler, born June 22,1947, was a science fiction writer.  She began her writing during a time when the genre was white and male dominated. Her determination to become one of the first black, woman science fiction authors, and her resulting success, has proven her influent to science fiction…

  • Frankenstein’s Influence Over Two Centuries

    While living in Switzerland, Lord Byron (Yes, that Lord Byron) held a writing competition among some close friends. The goal: Write the best horror story. Among the close friends were John Polidori, author of The Vampyre, and Mary Shelley. Unknown to Lord Byron, Shelley would eventually craft one of the…

  • Book Review: “Steelheart” by Brandon Sanderson

    When he was eight years old, protagonist David Charleston watched his father die at the hands of Steelheart, a superhuman “Epic” with massively destructive powers and apparent invincibility. But David saw the Epic bleed, and he swears that he’ll see Steelheart bleed again. Now, ten years later, he’s setting out…

  • Link-N-Blogs: Oct 4, 1013

    “Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”–Voltaire   1) Science: Good or evil? As science and technology advances, we find ourselves continuing to wonder how far are we willing to push the boundaries. When Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein, Or The Modern…

  • Webcomics, Part VII: Schlock Mercenary

    Written by Matthew Pardue After the last two webcomics, I thought I’d take us back to something with a story. A twelve-year-long story with lots of smaller stories inside it (I promised myself I wouldn’t make an Inception joke). This also marks my first science fiction review (unless you count…