Guest Post: “Plausible Fictions and Strange Realities” by Stephanie Saulter
Readers of this blog will know that I absolutely love the (R)evolution trilogy written by Stephanie Saulter. Not only is it excellently written and tells an emotional, action-packed, intelligent tale, it also hits relatively close to home in my case. As a bioscientist I was not only fascinated by the science fiction, but also by the plausibility of the science Stephanie used in her books. It is great to read a book that uses my area of expertise as a scaffold to build a whole story around. When I talked to Stephanie at LonCon last year, I mentioned that for me, as a scientist, I thought it was incredible that…
Best Reads of 2014
I’ve read way less books than I wanted this year, which makes me a bit sad. Life has gotten a bit in the way of my reading and though I’ve had a very busy and fun year, I miss the many hours spent on the couch with a book. But the books I did read were all very, very good. I think there was only one book that wasn’t really my cup of tea, some books that I thought were ok, but most of them were such awesome reads! There are only 3 more days left in 2014, so it’s time to pick the Best Reads of 2014. It was…
Binary – (R)evolution #2 – Stephanie Saulter
Release date: April 3rd, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 400 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review When confiscated genestock is stolen out of secure government quarantine, DI Sharon Varsi finds herself on the biggest case of her career… chasing down a clever thief, a mysterious hacker, and the threat of new, black market gemtech. Zavcka Klist, ruthless industrial enforcer, has reinvented herself. Now the head of Bel’Natur, she wants gem celebrity Aryel Morningstar’s blessing for the company’s revival of infotech – the science that spawned the Syndrome, nearly destroyed mankind, and led to the creation of the gems. With illness in her own family that…
Gemsigns – (R)evolution #1 – Stephanie Saulter
Release date: March 28th, 2013 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Humanity stands on the brink. Again. Surviving the Syndrome meant genetically modifying almost every person on the planet. But norms and gems are different. Gems may have the superpowers that once made them valuable commodities, but they also have more than their share of the disabled, the violent and the psychotic. After a century of servitude, freedom has come at last for the gems, and not everyone’s happy about it. The gemtechs want to turn them back into property. The godgangs want them dead. The norm majority is scared…
New Featured Series – (R)evolution by Stephanie Saulter
You might have noticed that I don’t really stick to the “one featured series per month” thing. That’s because life sometimes has other plans for me and throws plans and ambition my way. As such I have decided to just read at my own leisure and post when I finish a book or have time to compose a post about the series. This has been an extremely busy year for me and I know the blog has suffered sometimes, but I still want to commit myself to posting, simply because I love doing it. So for the next featured series, I’m going to do one that I hadn’t planned. I…