The book is written as a frame narrative. The story starts with our protagonist, referred to only as The Time Traveller telling a group of friends about his time-travel device and explains the concept to them. In order to prove it works he activates the device, and the guests are asked to come a week... Continue Reading →
Review – Basically Frightened – Vasily Pugh
Post-apocalyptic novels seem to be all the rage at the moment and it's difficult to find one that offers something different. With that in mind, I was pleasantly surprised when reading Basically Frightened. Pugh's dystopian novel tells the story of Buck, a man in his thirties, who is caught in a traditionally apocalyptic world. The... Continue Reading →
Review – Ball Machine – Simon Townley
Ball Machine, by Simon Townley, is the story of an incredibly athletic android. Rosa Rodriguez, both sexy and smart, challenges a group of secluded male geniuses to build her a robot for a tennis partner and the boys find it hard to say no to her feminine charm. They rise to the challenge and Vitas... Continue Reading →
Review – Oryx and Crake – Margaret Attwood
Oryx and Crake is the first novel of Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAddam’ trilogy, the second and third novels being The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013). was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year, and for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. We journey through Attwood’s dystopian future landscape... Continue Reading →
Review – Seeds – Chris Mandeville
Chris Mandeville’s post-apocalyptic novel, Seeds, is one of the best stories to read. It has everything a post-apocalyptic story should have. There is the story about how the world fell apart, what it left behind in its wake, and how different areas of people reacted after almost fifty years of having to survive within their... Continue Reading →
