Author Archive: Gareth D Jones
The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories edited and collected by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (book review).
‘The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories’ is a brand-new collection of stories translated from Chinese, with essays and a couple of stories originally written in English thrown into the mix, offers a much broader spectrum of Chinese speculative fiction than the other translations I’ve read in previous years. I generally only read Science Fiction, […]
Seven Mercies: TikTok Made Me Buy It (book 2 of 2) by Elizabeth May & Laura Lam (book review).
‘Seven Mercies’ is the sequel to last year’s ‘Seven Devils’ and the concluding part of this duology. It continues the action-packed, entertaining, fast-paced story of a group of seven rebels who have now taken on the nickname the Seven Devils, based on the empire’s mythology. After various adventures and debacles in the first volume, the […]
Blindspace by Jeremy Szal (book review).
Jeremy Szal’s action-packed debut novel ‘Stormblood’ exploded onto the scene last year, introducing us to alien-DNA-infected, ex-soldier Vakov Fukasawa. After agreeing once more to work for the interstellar government known as Harmony to track down the drug dealers spreading the same stormtech drug that was used to turn him into a killing machine, Vakov finds […]
AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Quifan (book review).
One of the greatest challenges for a Science Fiction author is to write a story set twenty or so years in the future. It’s not close enough to be indistinguishable from today, it’s not far enough in the future that anything could be possible, but it is close enough that you can soon be proven […]
Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space book 7) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
The arrival of a new ‘Revelation Space’ book from Alastair Reynolds is always quite an event and this is no exception. ‘Inhibitor Phase’ is intended to be readable as a standalone novel but, of course, there’s always more to appreciate about the story if you’ve read the other related books. The background is the same […]
Cxin Liu’s YuanYuan’s Bubbles: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Steven Dupre (graphic novel review)
Of the four graphic novels based on Cixin Liu’s stories that I’ve read so far, ‘YuanYuan’s Bubbles’ is the first one where I haven’t previously read the original story, so this was a new journey of discovery for me. Like the other titles in the series, it’s been adapted into a wonderfully entertaining and human […]
Cixin Liu’s The Village Teacher: Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Zhang Xiaoyu (graphic novel review).
The cover image for this graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s story ‘The Village Teacher’ seems very incongruous. The title brings to mind a quaint little village hall school scene, but the cover features an interstellar battle fleet destroying a planet. Oddly enough and not unusually for a Cixin Liu story, both entirely different scenarios […]
Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger (book review).
When an accident triggers an evacuation of the International Space Station, one of the astronauts decides to stay behind. Ignoring protocol and direct orders, Walli Beckwith remains on board and is soon branded a traitor and a pirate. Using her new-found notoriety to shine a spotlight on the wholesale destruction of the Amazon rainforest, her […]
Cixin Liu’s The Wandering Earth by: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Stefano Raffaele (graphic novel review).
As part of the new series of graphic novels adaptations of Cixin Liu’s work, one of his best-known short stories, ‘The Wandering Earth’, has been adapted by Christophe Bec into a fabulous and sumptuous looking work. I read the original prose story in the collection of the same name and I’ve also seen the film, […]
Cixin Liu’s Sea of Dreams: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Jok (graphic novel review).
Several of Cixin Liu’s novels and two short story collections have been translated into English and I’ve read all of them, as well as having the chance to meet him in person in London when he was over in the UK. As well as film and television series that have been rumoured, now several of […]
