We Are Living in a Dystopian World

There was a time when we used to read dystopian fiction as if it was a crystal ball that could reveal potential pitfalls of a future gone wrong. There are the classics like George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, as well as newer […]

Book Review: Mark of the Harbinger, Chris McCarthy

Humanity has fled Earth on slaved super-ships known as Eden, unable to die, unable to flourish, ruled over by a benevolent AI. Into this strange half-life comes Harbinger, a man out of time and out of place. Arc and the Human Council rule on Echelon, where life is idyllic and carefree. Any who disagree with […]

Book Review: Disrupt by Imran Siddiq

My rating: 4/5 for the series. The final volume in the Divided Worlds trilogy, that began with Disconnect and Disassemble. The research base that once was home to Zachary and thousands of others is now a frozen-over bunker on Europa, people only by the androids that were abandoned as the base lost all power. Zachary is […]

Book Review: Mockingjay (Hunger Games)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mockingjay is the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I started reading this trilogy back in September 2011 and have had this final part sitting on my kindle for nearly eight months. Its not that I didn’t want to read it right away. I wanted to draw out […]

Book Review: Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

Hollowland is the first in what is probably going to be a trilogy that takes on the now tired zombie apocalypse sub-genre. If the author’s name sounds familiar, its because Amanda Hocking (amandahocking.blogspot.co.uk)is a member of a very small group of authors who has become a millionaire through self-publishing her writing, which is no mean […]

Book Review: Gamers by Thomas Carpenter

This is a story about a high school girl that wants to graduate with good results and get her best-friend in the the same University as her. The only difference between this girl and any other high school girl is that she lives in our future when everything is hidden behind layers of augmented reality. […]