WFL Book Report Podcast: Episode 4 – SciFi with Annette
Latest Episode: Episode 4 – SciFi with Annette Guest Librarian: Annette Diola Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Google Podcasts Interview Notes: Our book recommendation this week is from librarian Annette Diola, her SciFi Book Club’s August pick: Gideon the Ninth...
April 4th 1636: Mission to the Mughals by Eric Flint, & Griffin Barber The United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and the West Virginians hurled back in time by a cosmic accident,...
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible, until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding...
The Raven’s Table: Viking Stories by Christine Morgan The wolf’s wind is howling, stalking like death itself. The carrion-crows, avaricious and impatient, circling the battle-ground, the Raven’s Table. Listen… The furious clangor of battle. The harrowing singing of steel. The desperate cries of wounded...
Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton I just finished Peter F. Hamilton’s latest book A night without stars: a novel of the Commonwealth and I must admit he is one of my favorite authors. The thing is, there is so much background information provided...
The Robots are coming . . . Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies. Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all...
The Robots are coming . . . Robot Uprisings by Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams; (Editors) Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold...
The Robots are coming . . . Accelerando by Charles Stross Accelerando presents a startling vision of humanity’s inability to cope with rapid technological advancement. Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, the Hugo Award-winning Stross introduces us...
The Robots are coming . . . Genesis by Bernard Beckett Like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and Divergent this short novel is set in a dystopian society however, this post-apocalyptic world is packed with suspense and ideas. Anax thinks she knows history....
The Robots are coming . . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick was probably the most brilliant science fiction writer in the world but, he died of a stroke at the age of 53. More than...
The galaxy is attacked by massive, mysterious robots. Fear sweeps the nine planets and anti-robot fervor leads to the destruction of all robots. Any left lingering are hunted by mercenaries. Years later we meet one robot, a boy designed for human companionship, who wakes...
The Robots are coming . . . I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from robots gone mad, to mind reading robots, robots with a sense of humor and even...
The Robots are coming . . . THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi Bacigalupi (The Water Knife) presents a grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and food economy. Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of...
The Robots are coming . . . WE THINK THEREFORE WE ARE edited by Peter Crowther Fifteen original stories about our fear of and fascination with artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has captured the imaginations of writers, readers, and scientists alike. Now some of the...
The Robots are Coming . . . DAEMON by Daniel Suarez Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller. DAEMON IS, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a...
In order to prepare for our future Robot Overlords, during the next few weeks I will feature books with a Robot or Machine Intelligence theme. – Tyson THE MECHANICAL by Ian Tregillis MY NAME IS JAX. That is the name granted to me by...
Uprooted by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik’s Uprooted has won the Locus Award and Nebula Award for best novel. Uprooted is a wonderful story loosely based on a number of fairy tales from Eastern Europe. Naomi is of Polish and Russian descent, and the stories...
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings....
The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award-winning novella A Meeting with Medusa, this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity’s first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters. Howard...
