A review by Nalini Haynes The End of All Things is the 6th book in the Old Man’s War series by John Scalzi and the …
Speculative fiction
Glitch season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes *amendment: initially I said Adam Hills of The Last Leg was one of the creators of Glitch; apparently it was …
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
A review by Nalini Haynes Jupiter Ascending has received a real panning in the media; people have criticised it for being a trainwreck of a …
Sense8 season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Eight people around the world discover they’re mentally linked and they have been since birth but they’ve just discovered it. …
Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
A review by Nalini Haynes James Griffin-Mars is a Chronoman, a time salvager who retrieves goods, particularly energy sources, to stave off the destruction of …
Mind Games by Teri Terry
A review by CJ Dee Luna lives in a future where everyone spends their lives ‘plugged in’ to a virtual world via implants in their …
Hacked by Tracy Alexander
A review by Nalini Haynes. Dan Langley is your typical 16-year-old geek except for his affinity with code. He goes down the rabbit hole to …
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
A review by Nalini Haynes Grasshopper Jungle is the history of the end of the world starting with Austin, leaping to Austin’s great-great-grandfather, meandering back …
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
A review by CJ Dee In a post-apocalyptic Australia, one man controls the water to control the people. One of his most trusted soldiers, Imperator …
Infini (2015)
A review by CJ Dee In the 23rd century, 95% of the population live on or below the poverty line. This causes them to take …
Home (2015)
A review by CJ Dee Oh (Parsons) is a member of the Boov race. They are adept at running from planet to planet so they …
The Age of Adaline (2015)
A review by Nalini Haynes The Age of Adaline opens introducing Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) while she’s acquiring forged identity papers so she can change her …
Vision of Fire by Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin
A review by CJ Dee Caitlin O’Hara is a world renowned child psychologist. Her latest patient, Maanik, is the daughter of a diplomat who is …
Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
A review by Nalini Haynes Lucy Munroe is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has spent the last 10 years in Phoenix, Arizona, writing about the …
Dark Alchemy by Laura Bickle
A review by Nalini Haynes Petra Dee is a geologist, pardon the pun. After a traumatic incident (her backstory unfolds later in the novel), Petra …