Evolution is a breathtaking science fiction story that will keep you spellbound from the beginning to end. Written by Stephen Baxter, this story is unorthodox and has a inclination to approach hard to believe events and notions. Baxter himself has avowed up front that he has turned a bit crazy in dealing with his story line.

Interesting Vignettes

The collection of short stories does not comprise of a sole plot circling around one set of characters. It breaks free from the convention and gives you a succession of vignettes to trace the rise of primates. Charles Darwin’s evolution theory has been prolonged and dramatized in this novel. The offering in the form of self-contained story segments does hamper the complete indulgence of reading a novel with the tale intertwined in a consecutive thread. Yet Baxter does a first-rate job at making each segment absorbing and eye-popping. Although the book is authored like a series of short stories, you need to read them in sequence to perceive the evolution process in its entire marvel.

The Story

Evolution begins with the asteroid collision that resulted in the extermination of the dinosaurs. The impact cleared the way for the subsequent rise of the earliest primates. Each segment thereafter focuses on the rise of a species of primate and the life they led. The segments also depict the trials and tribulations of each species of primate in a very abstruse manner. The segment of the novel that marks the transmutation of hominids into human beings is undoubtedly the highlight of the novel.

Remarkably, the story surpasses the current age and takes you on an imaginary excursion into the future. The tale culminates with the total annihilation of the Earth due to the Sun’s explosion and consideration about fresh evolution. The summation may register with you as a fabrication of an imagination that has run much too wild.

Superlative Writing Mettle

Baxter keeps you hooked through the total story with his writing mastery. Ingeniously using the notions of evolutionary anthropology, sociology, and biology, Baxter is able to seamlessly amalgamate his story segments in serenity. The narrative moves smoothly, embodying Baxter’s aptitude and is truly on target.
You can’t help feeling that a few segments are needlessly prolonged. At 564 pages the story is without a doubt very long. You might just have a pro tem thought that the narrative is getting a bit monotonous, but that is predominantly because each generation is impinged with similar endeavors and perils.

Evolution is loaded with detail and avoids fallacies. This is a concise indication that the yarn is a product of sincere and thorough research by Baxter. It is in no way garden-variety. The parts of the story that handle the future reflect an ample measure of imagination. In short, the tale contains all the ingredients for being rated as a gratifying science fiction book of high standard.

Evolution is a story of mankind. It dispenses an insight about mankind’s ancestors and how humans came into existence. It also urges you to think about the future; to think about the coming millenniums. In short, this tale makes stimulating reading.

About the Author
Gen Wright is a contributor to the online community Vampire Rave, a social network for real vampires. He also contributes to SciFi Section, a science fiction community.

There are a plethora of sci-fi books that have explored what the Earth would be like after the apocalypse, and generally the apocalypse in question is a nuclear war, or some sort of plague.

Unholy Domain takes this genre in a new and very thought provoking direction. One only has to spend a couple of minutes researching the history and growth of the Internet to realize how in the space of just a few years it was woven itself into the very fabric of our world. We have near instantaneous communication via email, we have access to enormous repositories of information, it has become a part of our day to day life. I could not live without it! Unfortunately there is a potential dark side to the technology. Increasingly it is also the backbone used by basic infrastructures, power generation, transportation, law enforcement, and a lot more. There have already been rumblings in the press about what might happen if hackers gained control of a power generating plant, or other basic service.

In Unholy Domain Dan Ronco takes us to a world where a decade previously (2010) a virus had decimated the Internet. Because of the disruption to basic services over a million people died. What would the world look like under these circumstances? Dan Ronco takes us to a world that has become a fractured society, the technos and the religious zealots. In the aftermath of the disaster the government has regulated technology, stifling innovation, this has resulted in an economic situation rivaling the great depression. Without advancing technology the world has not just stagnated it has regressed to an earlier time.

Technology has become an underground industry, a black market more lucrative than drugs. The technos are run by a shady organization known simply as The Domain. The opposing force are the fanatical Army of God, the paramilitary wing of The Church of Natural Humans. Their leader Adam Jordan is on the outside a charismatic speaker, but is also a man with a single minded hatred for technology and those who would use it.

Our hero in Unholy Domain is David Brown, a young student who has the dubious honor of being the son of the man accused of unleashing the deadly virus. When David receives a message sent 10 years previously from his father he begins to have doubts about his fathers guilt and decides to investigate for himself. David is walking a tightrope, he has enemies in high places, neither The Domain, nor the Army of God are enamored by his presence, for different reasons, though one does become his unseen temporary protector with an ulterior motive in mind. his is a fast paced techno thriller which I can pretty much guarantee you will not want to put down, I know I didn’t! Set close enough in the future (2020) that most of the ‘props’ are believable, it paints a dark picture of one potential future scenario for mankind.

This is a book that is worth searching out, I liked the style of writing a great deal. Each chapter begins with some quotes, some old and real, other from books yet to be written. A very cute touch. You don’t have to be a hard core Sci-Fi fan for this one, just a lover of a great story.

About the Author
Simon Barrett is an adult educator in Calgary, Alberta. With the 11 months a year of winter, he reads a lot of books! He is also a contributing editor for Blogger News and maintains a personal blog at Simon B.

One of the most important science-fiction novels ever, “Solaris” describes the events aboard an observation platform above a possibly-sentient planet. The main character Kelvin is there confronted by what’s left of the science team, and by solid manifestations of what could be the planet Solaris’ intuitive power: Kelvin is visited by his dead wife Rheya, who gives every appearance of being the troubled woman she says she is.

Part scientific speculation on possibilities of extra-terrestrial life unlike the traditional aliens we’ve so far imagined, and part psychological exploration into in the hidden abyss of the recessive, guilty mind, “Solaris” serves as a genuinely unmissable volume for any sci-fi reader. The first person narrative drives the story completely, although some of the descriptive narrative focusing on the planet’s various idiosyncrasies, however fascinating, are occasionally drawn out too long, resulting in a temporary halt on the momentum of the engrossing plot. The few characters are well drawn by Lem, who is fantastic at putting the reader on the wrong foot from the outset – he manages to surprise and shock the reader consistently.

In fact, “Solaris” is one of the very few examples of sci-fi horror, often mistaken as “psychological thriller”. It’s probably the only book to thoroughly scare the hell out of me, for what that’s worth, and the descriptive prose is sparse but actually unparalleled in style and effect.

I’ve seen neither of the film adaptations, one of which filmed in the author’s homeland of Russia in 1972s, and the other made in 2002 ago starring George Clooney. I can’t say if they accurately reproduce the novel, or if they manage to convey the wonder and majesty of the fictional planet, the hot claustrophobic atmosphere of the station, or the realistically depicted and heart-breaking journeys that Kelvin unwillingly embarks upon. I can only recommend the book as vocally as possible, and hope that even one more person picks it up. I don’t believe anybody would be disappointed by this masterpiece.

Stephenie Meyer is an American author, known for her vampire romance series Twilight.

The Host is a Sci-fi romantic novel by Stephenie Meyer. The novel introduces an alien race, called souls, who take over Earth and its inhabitants. The book describes one soul’s predicament when the mind of the host body refuses to cooperate with her takeover.

The Host is about a species invading earth and taking over the minds of their hosts-the humans. This book brings out the situation that arises if these little ‘souls’ are inserted into their hosts and the humans essentially are supposed to be gone although the soul has their memories. The story is all about such two combinations of a human and a soul i.e. Melanie-the human and the Wanderer-the soul. Melanie is one of few “wild” humans – rebels who have evaded the alien souls that have taken over the Earth. With her younger brother Jamie and the man she loves — Jared Howe, She is on the run from souls who hunt down host bodies for use.

Souls are creatures that rely upon host bodies to survive. After insertion, they erase any mental presence of the being there prior and establish a claim over the body and mind. Earth is Wanderer’s ninth planet, and Melanie is her ninth host body. The Wanderer goes crazy at first trying to get rid of her but eventually they find they like each other and develop a bond together. Wanderer started having more and more of Melanie’s memories and feelings and they came to a sort of understanding with each other. She wanted her to feel all of the feelings and emotions she did so that she would not be destroyed.

When Melanie wants to know where the people she left behind are and when she and the Wanderer set out to do just that, the story becomes a struggle for survival and learning to live in a different world. Did the souls continued to occupy the minds and bodies of the humans? Was there any solution given by Melanie and the Wanderer?

In simple terms, the story delivers a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake for the readers.
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Author: Madeline Oscar

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It has a girl and a haunted spaceship and a mysterious man with lots of secrets in his past. The book is equally divided in point of view between Sandor, the man with a spaceship and a past, and Allison.