Tag Archives: SF

Philip K. Dick – Galactic Pot-Healer (1969) Review

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 On the face of it, this novel is very silly. Dick throws a lot of strange stuff at the reader that seems completely random. Listen to this: Joe Fernwright lives in a communist dictatorship, and suffers from depression. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Ray Nayler – Where the Axe Is Buried (2025) Review

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 We are at a moment in history when democracy across the world seems in a downward spiral and even autocracies seem to become even greater shitholes than they already were, and at the same time, technologies such as AI … Continue reading →

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Claire North – The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) Review

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 The title says so already: this is one of those books in which a character keeps reliving their life. And it is a bloody good one. Harry August finds out that he is born again after he died the … Continue reading →

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Martha Wells – Network Effect (2020) Review. Murderbot #5

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 Well, it is Murderbot. If you’ve read the novellas, you’ll know what you’re gonna get. For the record, I have only read the first two novellas (All Systems Red & Artificial Condition) before tackling this novel, and that was … Continue reading →

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Walter Tevis – Mockingbird (1980) Review

Posted on September 15, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Mockingbird is a fantastic dystopian novel that straddles literary fiction and the typical SF tropes of robots and the like. One protagonist is Bentley, who recently taught himself to read. That makes him an oddity, because people don’t know … Continue reading →

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Jack Vance’s Last Novels: Ports of Call (1998) & Lurulu (2004)

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 One last time, for old time’s sake. It is a fine coincidence that Jack Vance for his last novels wrote a duology that returns to the wonderful universe he has created over the span of many decades. Ports of … Continue reading →

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Tim Winton – Juice (2024) Review. Australian Post-Apocalypse.

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 If I were an unimaginative reviewer, I would say that this novel is a cross-breed between the Mad Max films and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. But that would miss a lot of what Winton does. The world Winton describes … Continue reading →

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M. John Harrison – Viriconium (Full Series Review)

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

Comprising: The Viriconium series is Harrison’s great subversion of heroic fantasy. The first time I read this as a young adult, I didn’t like it. I didn’t understand it and it wasn’t what I was looking for in fantasy. But … Continue reading →

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T.R. Thompson – The River Blade (2025) Review

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

6.5/10 The River Blade is a cyberpunk/detective novel in the classic sense, diving into the dystopia of runaway technology in a ruined, violent world. In the near future, virtual reality has taken over everyone’s lives. The world is poor and … Continue reading →

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Underwater Science Fiction: Low by Rick Remender and Carthago by Christophe Bec

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Jeroen Admiraal

Science fiction doesn’t always have to take place in space. The deep sea is just as mysterious and dangerous. It can hold many secrets. It has monsters. It provides splendid psychological horrors of giant, ancient dangers, total darkness and total … Continue reading →

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