https://vmac.ch/tags/sf/Recent content in sf on vmac.chHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 28 Feb 2020 16:27:00 +0100https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-28-the-word-for-world-is-forest-review/Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:27:00 +0100https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-28-the-word-for-world-is-forest-review/I just finished reading The Word for World is Forest (Hainish Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin.📚 The story played on a world overgrown by a vast forest. Inhabited by humans adapted to the living on such a world in small tribal structures. The humans from earth started a colony to harvest wood on this planet. They use the native tribes as “slaves,” although not called by this name, it is the same.https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-23-the-dispossessed-review/Sun, 23 Feb 2020 11:36:00 +0100https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-23-the-dispossessed-review/I just finished reading The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Hainish Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin.📚 The book’s story has an unusual structure. It starts in the middle of the story, and each chapter is alternating between the past and the future. In the past chapter, we are told the childhood and growing up of the main character Shevek. In the future chapter, we are told about his journey to the sister planet Urrasti where he is a guest of a country called A-Io.https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-09-shadow-of-the-conqueror-review/Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:05:00 +0100https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-09-shadow-of-the-conqueror-review/I just finished reading Shadow of the Conqueror (Chronicles of Everfall Book 1) by Shad Brooks.📚 This book is the first book by Youtuber Shad from Shadiversity channel. I’m a subscriber for some time mainly for his technical videos about how castles work. I’ve known for some time that he wants to write a book but did not realize that it was already published. So I was happy to start the book when he mentioned it the other time in one of his videos.https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-08-the-left-hand-of-darkness-review/Sat, 08 Feb 2020 08:26:00 +0100https://vmac.ch/posts/2020-02-08-the-left-hand-of-darkness-review/I just finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.📚 I stumbled over this series on Micro.blog, I think, and as I needed something new to read, I started it. It is fascinating how Ms. Le Guin can write Science Fiction without ever needing to invent or explain technology. This book has Aliens and Spacecraft, but most of the book, the two main protagonists are walking though the big open world.