Category: Books
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Jumper Again
I did go to the movie version of Jumper. It had nothing to do with the book. I think there were about three or four scenes from the book in the movie, all at the very beginning. The characters were all completely different, although they had the same names. In general the movie was pretty…
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Jumper
Jumper, by Steven Gould, is among my favorite SF books. It’s a simple story based on a simple premise: a teenager discovers that he has the power to teleport. The book is both a bildungsroman and a revenge story, as he uses his power to strike back at his enemies (thanks to the one outrageous…
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Off Armageddon Reef
I like David Weber novels, even though they are terrible, in the same way that I like action movies. You more or less know what is going to happen, and you can tell the good guys from the bad guys in the first page or scene, and the dialogue is vastly different from anything any…
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SF Book Covers
I’ve always liked the science fiction author Eric Frank Russell, who is best known for short stories like “Allamagoosa” and “And Then There Were None.” I happened across an old novel of his in a used book store, The Mindwarpers. It was OK, not great, but really struck me afterward was the cover. The novel…
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Fermi Forge
I recently reread Greg Bear’s SF novel The Forge of God, after coming across it in a book. It’s a novel about the destruction of the Earth. I may be too pessimistic, but I find it to be one of the most convincing explanations of the Fermi paradox. Assuming our civilization doesn’t collapse, it’s going…