Category: Sci-Fi
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Time Travel Reading Challenge 2011
I’m a huge Time Travel fan when it comes to books. LOVE them. One of my all time favourites is Cross Stitch (AKA Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon. I first read it 20 years ago and have read countless books since but it still holds the number one spot on my ‘Best ever Book’ list. I…
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Review – Fatherland – Robert Harris
Format: Paperback, 380 pages Publisher: Arrow Books Publication date: 27 April 1993 ISBN: 0099263815 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out…
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Review – Keeping It Real – Justina Robson
Format: Paperback, 345 pages Publisher: Pyr Publication date: 14 March 2007 ISBN-13: 9781591025399 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Special agent Lila Black used to be…
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Review – Numbers – Rachel Ward
Format: Paperback Publisher: Chicken House Publication date: 05 January 2009 ISBN-13: 9781905294930 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Since her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else’s, a number pops into her head — the date on which they will die. But…
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Review – Rollback – Robert Sawyer
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Publication date: 05 February 2008 ISBN-13: 9780765349743 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the…
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Review – Flashforward byRobert Sawyer
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: 09 Oct 2009 ISBN: 978-0575091016 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones First line: “Day One: Tuesday, April 21, 2009” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions…
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Review – Outlander/Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
Format: Paperback Publisher: Century Publication date: 1991 ISBN-13: 978-0712647601 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon – when she walks through a…
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Review – The Dechronization of Sam Magruder – George Gaylord Simpson
Format: Paperback, 160 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication date: 15 April 1997 ISBN-13: 978-0312155148 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The Dechronization of Sam Magruder is one of the stranger works of fiction that has appeared in recent years. Its author, George Gaylord Simpson, was widely regarded as the greatest…