by Chris Maher | Jul 9, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books These new stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang challenge what we think about artificial intelligence, free will and other big questions. Ted Chiang made quite an impact in 2002 with his debut...
by Chris Maher | Mar 22, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books The new series from the author of the bestselling His Dark Materials continues in The Secret Commonwealth. For young adults, breaking up with a lover who seems to know your inner thoughts is a heart-wrenching...
by Chris Maher | Mar 22, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books Becky Chambers assembles an intriguing cast of species in a spacecraft on a mission into deep space. Compared in its publicity to cult TV sci-fi show Firefly, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is both more...
by Chris Maher | Mar 22, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books Underground Airlines is set in modern day USA – basically the same except for one overwhelming difference: the Civil War never happened, and slavery still exists. This novel is quite a feat.Ben H Winters has...
by Chris Maher | Mar 22, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books Boy Swallows Universe is a first novel rich in adventure, description and plot. Mark Twain famously said that truth is stranger than fiction, and the parts of Boy Swallows Universe that draw on Trent Dalton’s...
by Chris Maher | Mar 21, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books Cixin Liu takes the tropes of science fiction and looks at them with new eyes in this ambitious and imaginative series. ‘Hard’ science fiction doesn’t have to be hard to read, and even though Cixin Liu admits...
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