I was kindly sent a review copy of this book by the author Laura Kahn via Booktasters for which my thanks. Dealing with issues of the havoc humans inevitably wreak wherever they go, as also love and acceptance, difference and discrimination, and institutionalised unfairness, Thorns: When Earth Refugees are Aliens (2023) by Laura Kahn is…
Book Review: Mystery in the Metaverse (2023) by Nick Airus
I received a review copy of this book from the author via Booktasters for which my thanks. Set in the not-too-distant future, Nick Airus’ Mystery in the Metaverse (2023) unfolds in a world where like the present, the real and virtual exist parallelly, except that the virtual by this point is far more developed with…
Book Review: The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin #LoveHain
A work of science fiction, which, like most such others, uses the device of alternative times, worlds and settings essentially to critique human failings, the state of society, The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula Le Guin, part of her Hainish cycle, brings to us the story of three societies (two of these more closely than the…
Book Review: Invisible Footprints in Time? (2020) by Irwin Wislesky
My thanks to the author for a review copy of this book via Booktasters. Invisible Footprints in Time? (2020) is a piece of science fiction but with a difference, for it is also about history, humanity, and human (spiritual) connection—what is truly important to preserve humanity in its essence. The story opens some 50-odd years…
Guest Post: Book Review: Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Many years ago, I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and was fascinated by his deep examination of scientific advancement, intimate relationships, and what it means to be human. So I was particularly excited to pick up his latest novel Klara and the Sun: his first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature…
Book Review: Circumstances by Solomon Sackitey
I received a review copy of the book via Booktasters. Circumstances combines science-fiction and adventure but essentially is a comment on a number of issues that plague the world today and the state of human affairs; one could even say, it is a critical look into these issues in the guise of fiction, but also…
Literary Potpourri 