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As an avid consumer of sci-fi and fantasy in all its forms, please allow me to say a few words about my favorite subject.
Author Archives: Bruncvik
Book review: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
Let’s start by saying that this book is quite different from the author’s Hugo Award winning Broken Earth trilogy. Those who liked her previous work may be disappointed, but they shouldn’t. Objectively speaking, this is a much more mature work, … Continue reading
Book review: Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
The fifth book in the Wayward Children delivers more easy reading, simple plot and amazing worldbuilding. Who cares that the internal logic is broken, as long as the readers can experience one of the most inventive fantasy worlds of the … Continue reading
Book review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I don’t know what makes this little book so appealing. Maybe it’s the very pleasant protagonist. Or perhaps the visuals. Or the writing, which prepares you for tedium and disappointment in the first act, only to explode into a fascinating … Continue reading
Book review: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
More necromancers in space! Leviathan-sized beasts that can’t be killed by anything short of a black hole! Ghosts, revenants, possessed corpses, hyperspace that looks more like a river full of floating corpses, a space station full of skeletons and planet-killing … Continue reading
Book review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The highly anticipated third novel by Andy Weirs checks all the right boxes. It’s educational, highly entertaining, upbeat and easy to read. All characters are eminently likeable. The story may sound far-fetched but is plausible. Weir mixes in just the … Continue reading
Movie review: The Tomorrow War (2021)
The Tomorrow War is this generation’s Independence Day. It’s intense, amazing, with great action sequences, a little bit of humor and emotion. All characters are relatable, and the outcome is happy. It is also dumb as heck, with logical holes … Continue reading
Why I Maintain This Blog
For my 100th article in this blog, I decided to do something different. I’ll try to articulate why I’m actually putting an effort in this blog, what I’m trying to achieve, and what I don’t care much about. Nothing here … Continue reading
Book review: Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
This 2021 Hugo Award nominee is a difficult but rewarding read. It features compelling characters and exciting worldbuilding. It blends history with fantasy and predicts some disturbing technological growth. On the other hand, its structure is sometimes confusing to follow, … Continue reading
Movie review: Color out of Space (2021)
I freely admit that I’m a huge fan of Lovecraft’s writings. For me, no other classic author struck such a careful balance between exposition and mystery, which let my imagination freely flowing. His terrors are largely unnamed and not well … Continue reading
A few notes on Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy by David Kyle Johnson (Great Courses)
Great Courses has a few very good lectures on Science Fiction. So far, I’ve found all of them very insightful, inspirational and even aspirational. This one is no exception: the depth of analysis Johnson performs on movies and TV shows … Continue reading
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