The totally awesome and very latest addition to the Jurassic Park franchise hit the webs with an action-packed trailer recently, and people are getting a little excited. Now we’ve learned a few things about Jurassic World, and have some idea of what to expect when the film hits theaters this summer. Firstly, they got the…
Here at Sci-Fi Bloggers, we run a lot of individual pieces on the site, each of them revolving around and focusing on a specific topic. Sometimes, however, we like to crank it up a notch and take a look at a few things at once. With that said, we invite you to follow us as we…
It takes a great writer to describe a complex world created with technology beyond our time, even if just, and phrases that haven’t entered our dialogue quite yet and allow readers to feel as if they’re a part of it and not alienated. At first Joseph MacKinnon’s novel Cypulchre is a bit intense. There’s a…
You can tell a lot about a book by its first chapter. That’s because writers often use it for expressly that purpose. They have to sum up the tone, the characters, and the world, usually with only about twenty pages to work with. It’s no small feat, and that’s why I am so excited about…
It’s been the subject of songs, movies, and a few television adaptations, but Hollywood wants another crack at George Orwell’s 1984. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that English director Paul Greengrass will get an opportunity to bring his vision to life. Previously Greengrass directed two films from the Jason Bourne series (not that weird…
There are two massive projects that one of Interstellar’s writers, Jonathan Nolan, is working on. Nolan is taking Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton’s critically acclaimed sci-fi western, Westworld, and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, and bringing them to HBO. Originally, Westworld was released in 1973 and was directed by Crichton. The film takes place in a futuristic, adult-themed…
Let me begin this article by saying: I’m a thug. I read Stephen King all day. Nothing can scare me. This book, however, kind of freaked me out. In Litore’s Ansible 15715, readers are transported into a world so terrifying even your worst nightmare couldn’t hold a candle to it. Years into the future, we’ve…
There is a part of me that is curious to know how the sci-fi publishing community is currently marketing books that have to do with pandemics right now. One isn’t sure whether they may quietly put them on the back burner in favor of dealing with nanotech or something less pertinent, or whether they will…
Perhaps one story just isn’t enough for Halloween, but how about a collection of scary stories ranging from alien abductions to haunted house horrors? Longtime writer Susan R. Murphy releases her first book, The Immortals, for the season. She sat down to write about experiences from her childhood as well as creepy mysteries that caught her…
What if you had the power to freeze time, and wander through frozen crowds, picking pockets as you pleased? The Thought Readers by Dima Zales starts off interesting and realistic. What would I do if I could secretly spy on everyone? I’d get rich quick, and that’s what main character Darren does. He’s considered a…
If you weren’t aware of the intense fandom that is the ravenous Harry Potter community, then you need to explain to me where you’ve been the last fifteen years. However, there’s no time for that now, because author J.K. Rowling has been tweeting. A cryptic message showed up on her feed on October 6th, and…
When the opportunity to read a novel about a rogue, self-aware robot engineered specifically to fulfill human sexual desires crosses your path, you don’t hesitate. You pounce. The novel Sexbot by Patrick Quinlan tells the story of Susan Jones, a scientist who downloads her consciousness into a ninth generation Sexbot, the highest quality artificial intelligence…
