Wowsers. Ansible 15715 (The Ansible Stories) is going to be hard to review without spoilers, but it so worth the read. Okay, let’s see if we can give it a go… If you’ve read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game series, Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep, or Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos, you’ve run into […]
Archives for 2014
Win More Money for Books (or a Kindle Fire)!
2014-09-09 · by ·
I scream, you scream, we all scream for…more books! If we’re going to be honest, each of us would–like our good friend Desiderious Erasmus–rather spend money on books than food or clothes. What if we could you a little more dough so you can save your cash for clothes? Or food? KEEP READING, MY FRIEND…. […]
Space Age Prophets: The Astounding Predictions of Sci-Fi’s “Big Three”
2014-09-08 · by ·
In the mid-20th century, three science-fiction authors would become known as the genre’s “Big Three” — Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. These three gentlemen are renowned not only for their literary prowess, but also for their uncanny ability to make predictions about technology in the future. Here is a look at […]
Guns and Rock n’ Roll versus Evil: Hellhound on my Trail by D.J. Butler
2014-09-01 · by ·
I have been known to use hyperbole. I have also been known to love two books with equal passion even when they have absolutely nothing in common, whether one be a time-tested classic (like, say, Anna Karenina) and the second all fun (think Larry Correia). I use no hyperbole, then, when I say that D.J. Butler hits the […]
Win Tickets to Salt Lake Comic Con for Your Whole School!
2014-08-31 · by ·
Here’s a chance for you to win tickets for your whole school to Salt Lake Comic Con. Post by Salt Lake Comic Con. Related articles Salt Lake Comic Con Announces League of Heroes Ticket Giveaway (prnewswire.com) Win 2 Thursday Passes to Salt Lake Comic Con (attackofthebooks.com) Salt Lake Comic Con adds Ron Perlman to guest list […]
Panels For Sci-Fi Lovers at Salt Lake Comic Con 2014
2014-08-27 · by ·
Salt Lake Comic Con has a little bit of something for everyone: celebrities, cosplay, advanced screenings, the artist alley, comic books and more. One of best parts of Salt Lake Comic Con, though, is the panels. Put your favorite celebrities, authors, and fellow geeks in a room for an hour, and you might learn a […]
Win 2 Thursday Passes to Salt Lake Comic Con
2014-08-26 · by ·
[UPDATE 9.2.2014] A winner has been selected and will be getting an email shortly. Thanks to all who participated! One of the best opportunities to catch up with our favorite authors is Salt Lake Comic Con. This year, Attack of the Books! is an official blog, and you’ll see a post or two from […]
Meet Dave Butler, Steam Punk/Science Fiction/Fantasy Author Extraordinaire
2014-08-24 · by ·
Dave Butler, the author of steam punk novel City of the Saints, is one of the most interesting authors I’ve had the opportunity to meet in the recent past. And, probably, the less than recent past, as well. I first ran into Dave Butler when he sat on a panel about J.R.R. Tolkien at Salt Lake […]
Science Fiction as the Best Social Fiction of Our Time: The Chaplain’s War by Brad Torgersen
2014-08-20 · by ·
Author Doris Lessing once noted that “That function of a writer is to raise questions not find answers.” A Nobel Prize winner, Lessing famously responded to a critic of her Canopus in Argos series–a work of science fiction, in contrast to what critics considered her more serious literature–by saying: “What they didn’t realize was that […]
What Good Science Fiction Looks Like: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
2014-08-13 · by ·
Vernor Vinge is brilliant and his A Fire Upon The Deep has got everything that really good science fiction should have. In his Zones of Thought universe, Vinge has divided the Milky Way galaxy into zones in which technology, thought, and intelligence increases the further you move from the galactic core. These zones–the “Unthinking Depths,” […]
