Story Basis Andy Weir's latest novel Artemis looks at first to be a step back from his first novel The Martian. Set on the Moon rather than Mars, inside a moon base (Artemis) with the protagonist being a young woman who is trouble and doesn't really amount to much in life on Artemis.When I initially … Continue reading Artemis – where Sci-Fi becomes a vision of the future.
NEW PORTION IN BOLD Join us for a progressive writing experiment! Laura from www.todaysdose.wordpress.com and Simon from Planet Simon came up with the idea that we work together on a story 'seed' and let it out into the blogoshpere she has begun the story with only a few paragraphs and a title, I've added a little … Continue reading The Cabin
The name Ellie Maloney might not mean much to people here, some of you may remember a re-blogged post on her and her new book 329 Years awake a few weeks ago. Ellie is a very creative Sci-Fi blogger who a while ago went very quiet. It was easy to see why becasue she was … Continue reading 329 Years Awake – A Mix of X-Files and Hard Sci-Fi
Continuing the fun time I've been having with children's books lately I'm moving onto an older set of stories. Just William What I didn't appreciate until I read these books was how old they are. I found them harder to read than other children's books and I couldn't work out what it was all about … Continue reading Bookish Stuff – Just William
I've been thinking about how much I've been reading lately and at first it doesn't seem like much (especially when compared to the book legends that read 100 books a year and such like). But then I have been reading a lot to my son at bed time and I have to say it's been … Continue reading Bookish Stuff – Horrid Henry
As my long time readers may remember, a while ago I watched The Martian and I wrote about it, it was a great story and the book was supposed to be pretty good too - so I read it and I've got a few things to say about it. The Story Firstly the story is … Continue reading The Martian – How the novel stacked up to the film
Check this out: 'FREE BOOKS: 100 Legal Sites To Download Literature' - 100-legal-sites-to-download-literature/
Candice Coates of candicecoates.wordpress.com has a problem that I an only dream of. She has two books to self publish. The problem comes is which one to publish first! The two books are called Warden and Nexus Gate 4037. Both of them are Science Fiction novels with a different twist. The Warden is comic adventure and Nexus Gate … Continue reading Battle of the Books – A Warden and a Nexus
A while ago on Twitter a call for readers and reviewers caught my eye from a new author - Lisa Bush. I responded and found out she's relatively local to me and she kindly sent me a copy of her book Hanging Tough for me to read and let her know my thoughts. Hanging Tough is … Continue reading Hanging Tough – How tough was it?
Arthur C Clarke is a person that I can say definitely inspired into me a deep love of science fiction. As a child I was always intrigued by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. I didn't watch the film I was older and I could understand the story line. Once I had, I was gripped (the … Continue reading Arthur C Clarke
I rarely write book review posts, that becasue it takes me son long to read one you guys would get bored between posts and forget me. But I have just finsished The Beauty Thief, written by my bloggie friend Rachael Ritchey. The premise of the story is about where real beauty comes from and that … Continue reading Book Review – The Beauty Thief
Hello bloggies, I was nominated for the classics book tag by Charley of BookandBakes1. I'm not a typically classic book reader, but nonethe less, let's see how we go. I have to apologise to Charley now, becasue she tagged me so long ago on this one and I've not been my diligent self and … Continue reading Classic Book Tag
Simon's Space 
You must be logged in to post a comment.