[amazon_link id=”1455503061″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Pure Author : Julianna Baggott Genre : Dystopian/Horror Pages : 448 Publisher : Grand Central Publishing Source : NetGalley Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Pure is not your ordinary dystopian novel, it treads into the horror category. It is a story of a bleak future, one where the […]
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Book Review : Pure
By amodini
Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, dystopian, fantasy, hachette, imaginative, netgalley, recommended, review, sci-fi |
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Book Review : Magebane
By amodini
Posted in 2011, 3_star_rating, arc, books, imaginative, penguin_books, review, sci-fi, steampunk |
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[amazon_link id=”075640679X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Magebane Author : Lee Arthur Chane Genre : Sci-fi / Steampunk Publisher : DAW Pages : 488 (ARC) Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 3/5 Magebane is a steampunk-meets magic-meets science kind of a book. I was fairly intrigued reading the preview material for it. The story is […]
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By amodini
Posted in 2011, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, harpercollins, lovely things, must read, netgalley, recommended, review, sci-fi, time-travel |
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[amazon_link id=”0062015834″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title – Q: A Novel Author : Evan Mandery Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Harper Collins Pages : 368 Rating : 4.5/5 Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC If you knew what your future had in store would you change the present to make it better ? Quite the question, isn’t […]
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By amodini
Posted in 3.5_star_rating, books, recommended, review, sci-fi, simon_schuster, usa |
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[amazon_link id=”1451631715″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Orbit Author : John J. Nance Genre : Science Fiction Rating : 3.5/5 It was a coincidence that I was reading this book about the same time as the recent Atlantis mission was going through. Ironical really that I was reading about the future of space travel just […]
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By amodini
Posted in 3.5_star_rating, books, penguin_books, review, sci-fi |
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Title : WWW:Wake (first book of a 3-book series) Author : Robert J. Sawyer Genre : Science fiction Rating : 3.5/5 Dragons are not for me. I also shy away from vampires, and from fable-like, mythical sounding works of fiction. Although sci-fi and fantasy are routinely clubbed together, they are very different. While fantasy is […]
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By amodini
Posted in 2.5_star_rating, books, culture and society, fantasy, review, sci-fi, tor |
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Title : The Unincorporated manAuthor : Dani and Eytan KollinGenre : Science fictionPublisher : Tor BooksPages : 496Rating : 3/5 A futuristic society in which people are incorporated just like other assets, cars fly and walls are permeable. Sound intriguing? I thought so, which is why I picked up this book. And just like the […]
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By amodini
Posted in 4_star_rating, books, fantasy, random_house, recommended, review, sci-fi |
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Title : The SparrowAuthor : Mary Doria RussellGenre : Science fiction/Religion and spiritualityPages : 408Publisher : Ballantine BooksRating : 4/5 You have an earth-ful of people. Yet, it is tantalizing to believe that there is life out there, intelligent aliens who will want to meet others like themselves and forge bonds of friendship and world […]
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By amodini
Posted in 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, historical, penguin_books, sci-fi, steampunk |
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Title : The Kingdom of OhioAuthor : Matthew FlamingGenre : Sci-fi/historical fiction/steampunkPublisher : Amy Einhorn Books (G.P.Putnam’s Sons)Pages : 322Rating : 3.5/5Source : Publisher ARC This book piqued my interest because it purported to be a time travel story, mixed together with all sorts of steampunk. And let me tell you, that time travel story […]
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By amodini
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Title : VenusAuthor : Ben BovaGenre : Science fictionPages : 382Rating : 3.85/5 One of the books in the “Grand Tour” series by Hugo award winner Ben Bova, Venus is a novel about space travel and exploring new worlds. It is also a classic “underdog” tale with a bit of the “coming-of-age” genre mixed in. […]
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