Category: science fiction

BOOK REVIEW: Spock Must Die! by James Blish

BOOK REVIEW: Spock Must Die! by James Blish

Posted August 26, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews, science fiction / 7 Comments

Spock Must Die by James Blish is the first book in the Star Trek Adventure series originally published by Bantam. The world of Star Trek is humongous. There are different series in which this enormous world is divided. For a week I was confused to start reading which series or any particular book. My previous knowledge of Star Trek world is limited to the two movies which have came lately and are directed by J. J. Abrams. I know what an enterprise is, I knew the main characters and of course the Klingon race. I haven’t watched the original telly shows but I was confident enough to start an expedition. The first original Star Trek novel was published by James Blish in 1970, Spock Must […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

BOOK REVIEW: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Posted June 3, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews, science fiction / 4 Comments

Herbert George Wells starts the book THE TIME MACHINE by arguing that the ‘Time’ is itself a separate dimension. Through the protagonist of the book, Wells present a theory that the first three dimensions are occupied by the space and the time is the fourth dimension. Just like the narrator of the book, as a reader of the text, I felt eccentric while coming across the aforementioned theory of Mr. Herbert G. Wells. In the book, an unnamed narrator tells the story of a time traveller whom he met and who then takes over the narration to describe about an event that happened to him. The Time Machine is all about imagination. Both of the person who wrote it, and the person […]

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You think surviving on Earth is a challenge, how about Mars?

You think surviving on Earth is a challenge, how about Mars?

Posted November 6, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews, science fiction / 0 Comments

The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars “You think surviving on Earth is a challenge, how about Mars?” Labeled as a “survival thriller“, imagine Robinson Crusoe on Mars? It’s a tale of a man trying to endure alone on the incredibly inhospitable planet of Mars. But it’s not the tension of survival that makes Andy Weir’s debut novel brilliant, it’s the humor. In the middle of nowhere, Mark Watney, a botanist and a mechanical engineer, without his crew who were forced by a dust storm to leave him behind, thinking he was dead, wakes up some time later to find himself stranded on Mars with a limited supply of food and no way to communicate with […]

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