by Matt Freeman | Jul 8, 2015 | Book Reviews, Essay, Matt's Sci-Fi, Uncategorized
This article is an analysis of recurring themes in Neal Stephenson’s literary corpus and consequently contains spoilers for most of his published works, including Snow Crash, the Diamond Age, Anathem and Seveneves. That said, it is this writer’s opinion that the...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 26, 2015 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Given our coverage of Worm, I figured it would only be fair to increase the visibility of the other largely popular (as large as web serials can be, anyway), completed web serial Ra, by Sam Hughes. For the spoiler-free-est impression of Ra, I can only suggest the...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 25, 2015 | Book Reviews, Matt's Sci-Fi, Uncategorized, You've Probably Never Heard Of
Image Credit: geekysoundcat You heard it here first: web serials are the new hotness. Charles Dickens wrote most of his novels as serials. This means he published them in monthly or weekly installments and people read them as they were published. It was only afterward...
by Matt Freeman | Jun 17, 2015 | Book Reviews, Matt's Sci-Fi, Uncategorized
Peter Watts’ Blindsight is my favorite novel. It’s the novel I’ve given as a gift more times than any other. Many good things can be said about Blindsight through many different lenses of critical analysis, but I like to focus on one of the key questions...
