Fiction – Page 7 – Failures in Polymathy

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu

What even is sci-fi?

Said to be the first great American novel, one find themselves asking why.

There are some things I don’t want to discuss with my students. Here’s one.

This Warhammer book handles a a common sci-fi trope really poorly. But who cares?

Hemingway still feels like a burden, but I didn’t this one so much.

A futuristic fairy tale.

Jumping into a novel in the middle of a series is never a great idea.

For all of Andrea Camilleri’s laurels, this was just plain bad.

If ever you want to see the power of Worldbuilding, this is the book that will show it to you.

So called ‘classics’ pretty frequently don’t age very well. I am not sure why this is such a controversial statement.