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Review: Elysium – Neill Blomkamp
The people living in slums on a polluted earth enviously look up to Elysium, the space station retreat of the ultra-wealthy, were all their illnesses could be cured at the wave of a hand. After a work accident, Max da Costa, a factory labourer on probation, joins forces with a smuggler with an altruistic streak in order to get to Elysium and save himself.
Review: Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson
The Queen of the Netherlands is invited to a secret climate conference where an extravagant Texas oil millionaire reveals his plans to save the earth from climate change and rising sea levels.
Review: Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
In a modern take on a classic fairy tale, we follow three young women as they face a cold, bitter winter, and everything that can be found within it.
Review: Neuromancer – William Gibson
Part one of the Sprawl Trilogy – Henry Case, a hacker wasting his life away in the underworld of Japanese Chiba, gets picked up by a mercenary in the service of an ex-special forces agent who needs his hacking skills for a unique job.
Curator Question: The new Rings of Power teaser trailer, yay or nay?
Our curators discuss the new Rings of Power teaser trailer: yay or nay?
Curator Question: Do you prefer Fantasy or Sci-Fi?
Our curators discuss which genre they like best: fantasy or science fiction?
Review: Exhalation – Ted Chiang
A merchant in ancient Baghdad discovers a time portal which allows him to revisit his past mistakes. A former zookeeper takes a job raising digital lifeforms. A new technology enables people to communicate with alternate versions of themselves, and to see how their life would have turned out if they had made different choices.
Collected: Fantasy High by Dimension 20
COLLECTION: It’s the first day of school at Agueforth Adventuring academy, a school for teen fantasy hero’s. Will our intrepid adventurers make it through the year?
Curator Conversation: The Journey of a Sci-Fi Noob (Part 1)
In this series, we will introduce on of our curators to a whole new genre – science fiction! Will sci-fi prove as addictive to Jop as fantasy has always been? Read the first part to find out!
Review: Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie
Against a backdrop of Machiavellian politics and bloody war between the city states of Styria, former mercenary general Monzcarro Murcatto is betrayed and nearly murdered by an employer she thought she could trust. Battered and beaten, she scrapes together a crew of bloody-minded misfits with a single mission: Revenge!
Curator Question: 2022 Resolutions
What are our curators’s resolutions for 2022? Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles will finally get the attention they deserve?
Review: The Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay
In a low fantasy world mirroring religiously divided medieval Spain, people from different faiths and different kingdoms find each other and forge bonds of love that are subsequently tested as the peninsula threatens to descend into the chaos of holy war, and their different allegiances start to slowly pull them apart.