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…
Retconning, a term often encountered by even the most casual of fans, is one of the most significant, game-changing ideas in the world of entertainment (comics, television, etc.), and yet most people don’t know it from the kind of clubs Tiger Woods uses on the golf course. This essay will explain what retconning is. Simply…
Enter a futuristic society where humanity has branched off of Earth and settled among its extraterrestrial neighbors in the Spiral Arm. Kevin J. Anderson’s The Dark Between the Stars is the compelling first installment of a brand new trilogy called The Saga of Shadows. Humans have divided themselves into the independent, spaceship-savvy Roamer clans and…
The month of May saw the release of two brand new sci-fi series, The Woods from BOOM! Studios, and Trees from Image comics. Despite the fact that their titles are both woodsy in nature, they are quite dissimilar in plot and the viewpoint from which they introduce their worlds. The Woods is by a much…
Being trapped in a never-ending maze sounds like a recurring nightmare people have and J.M. McDermott brings it to life in his book Maze. Maze follows the stories of a handful of people who each find themselves stuck in an endless maze with only one option: survive. There is a tribe of humans who live…
Divergent (published May 3rd, 2011) is the first chapter of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, followed by Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013). The novel takes place in a futuristic Chicago in which the population is divided into 5 factions: Abnegation, meant for the selfless, Amity, for the peaceful, Candor, for those who value the truth above all else, Dauntless, for the…
Out of the vast science fiction library, every once in a while a book will come along that becomes an instant classic. A novel that captures the imagination, evokes emotion, and stirs thought in the reader about what could be. For me, these are the novels that do just that – novels that define science…
The Wheel of Time is a high fantasy tale of epic proportions. Written by Robert Jordan, the first book, The Eye Of The World was originally published in 1990. Jordan continued to write the series until his death in late 2007. Beginning with the 12th book in the series and using Robert Jordan’s highly detailed…
Zach Pasons’ My Tank Is Fight was published in 2006. It details some of the inventions and ideas that didn’t actually make it to the battlefield. Many of these are of German origin, fueled by the need for some kind of new weapon to turn the war around. The picture above, which is in the…
Dead and Gone Sookie Stackhouse Book 9 released.
