Month: January 2008

  • Space Mercenaries (A. Bertram Chandler)

    Another book from the second hand bookshop that pre-dates ISBN numbers. I’m almost beginning to feel that’s the sign of a good book. Perhaps because people loved it enough to keep it before it found it’s way to the bookshop. Anyway, this sci-fi book could easily be the beginning of a series… (thanks to Google…

  • Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

    One of my rare moments of watching TV happened to be a segment that detailed the link between “1984” by George Orwell and “Brave New World”. I loved reading 1984, or at least, I think I remember loving reading 1984. I read it while at school around the age of 15. One of those books…

  • The Stainless Steel Rat (Harry Harrison)

    Every now and then you read a book and think “this would make a good film”. This book would make a good film. I could even place half of Hollywood’s famous actors in different parts of it. The story is sci-fi but with all the best sci-fi I have read it could easily be applied…