Nehaveigur

Category: Novels

  • Gateway: A sci fi novel from 1977 that has aged well

    Gateway by Frederik Pohl won both the Nebula award and the Hugo, which was a bigger deal back when it came out almost 50 years ago, in 1977. It has alien artifacts, space travel, heavy drinking, sex and interesting characters. Those are all suitable ingredients for a science fiction novel,…

  • Resist Summary

    This is from Simon Sarris’ blog, The Map is Mostly Water: It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You cannot read a summary of Anna Karenina and somehow stockpile its pleasures and charms. Narrative resists compression. I think avoiding summary is even more important…