Often when I read science fiction I tend to read the classics like, H.G.Wells, or Arthur C. Clarke. There is something about their style and storytelling that I find enduring and even attractive. Many modern writers have too much street talk for my tastes. I prefer thing to be written in full, not a collection [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sci Fi’
The Travelers Companion
Posted: 11th April 2012 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, ebooks, Horsham Writers, Mathew E C Bridle, Sci Fi
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Book Review: The Human Race – O.C. Heaton
Posted: 3rd August 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, Mathew E C Bridle, Sci Fi
Now here is an unusual book. The author, Mr Heaton, has clearly spent many a long day researching all things Icelandic, American airline history and a great deal of quantum physics relating to the plausibility of teleportation. Then he has taken said research and built a novel around it without killing the story at all. [...]
Book Review – The Invisible Man
Posted: 24th October 2010 by Mathew Bridle in Book Review, Mathew's BlogTags: badly writen novels, Book Review, H.G.Wells, Mathew E C Bridle, novels, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, The Invisible Man
It might seem odd to be reviewing something that was published over a hundred years ago but it is as contemporary today as it ahead of its time when it was first published. The Invisible Man, like so many classics, has been butchered by Hollywood and turned into trite. H.G.Wells wrote, not horror stories, but [...]
Book Re-Launch
Posted: 22nd July 2009 by Eric in Eric's Blog, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: badly writen novels, book launch, Eric C. Williams, lulu.com, novels, Sci Fi, writer's circle
A must for all Sci-Fi fans out there is the re-launch of a sci-fi classic – Time for Mercy by Eric C. Williams. Originally released in 1979 we have reworked the novel and released it again via www.lulu.com partly as an example to the Horsham Writers Circle of which Eric is the long standing president, [...]