Adam Roberts' Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea is, as the title suggests, homage to the world and imagination of Jules Verne. I have a particular fondness for the original Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. I've probably read it seven or eight times, to say nothing of the movie. Therefore, I was both intrigued... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Yellow Blue Tibia stretches from 1946 to the Chernobyl disaster. The novel follows Konstantin Andreiovich Skvorecky, a Soviet science fiction writer, who along with several other writers was tasked by Stalin to create a believable story about an alien invasion that could be used as an external threat to bind the USSR together, after the... Continue Reading →