science fiction – Pivotal

by Paolo Becigalupi

"both a heart-stopping dystopian thriller and a razor-sharp vision of our near future. The story is set in a chilling near future Thailand, where calories count as currency with the world’s foodstuffs becoming depleted."
Time Magazine named The Windup Girlby Paolo Bacigalupi as one of its ten best novels of the year. And the book has also won an extraordinary five of 2010′s major international SF awards: the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award. => http://amzn.to/18hbWBv

Books, Claire Corbett, science fiction, When we had wings

Coming soon – “compellingly original”- When we had wings

When We Had Wings

by Claire Corbett

In a world divided into fliers and non-fliers, how far would you go to be able to fly? How much would you sacrifice - perhaps your own child? A beautifully written and compellingly original novel of sacrifice, betrayaland love. => http://bit.ly/fgzrK9

Books, science fiction

8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction

A submarine once seemed about as ridiculously impossible as an invisibility cloak seems today. But while technologies like the submarine, bomb, radar and tank once captured the imagination of science fiction authors, science has brought them to the mainstream awareness. Researchers are continuing to catch up with imagination, and it’s only a matter of time before the technologies we still consider fiction meet a similar fate.

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