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Science Fiction Reviews<\/h1>\n

Science Fiction Books and Films reviewed by writer Colin Trafford<\/em>
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James Amoah’s Chaotic Butterfly: A Major Novelist Emerges<\/h2>\n

Normally I read cheesy rot about space ships and robots and crawling mutant slime.\u00a0<\/span>Chaotic Butterfly<\/em>\u00a0proved a breath of fresh air. I love this book for that alone. But more: I respect it. I don\u2019t know whether the reader smart enough to buy a copy will love it as much, or get quite as much of a kick, but I do know they will enjoy it. Bullets fly, planes crash, crises and cliffhangers abound, as does frequent wit, scenes that will make the reader laugh outright, and (not least) Amoah\u2019s wonderful gift for words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One has but to quote:<\/span>
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The Breivikian Subtexts of 10 Cloverfield Lane\u00a0<\/h2>\n

For the most part 10 Cloverfield Lane<\/i> is a loathsome, somewhat Faulkneresque, piece of trash. Conceived in the modern Pavlovian manner, its elements are there more to make you drool than think. That puts it firmly in the realm of anti-sf, not science fiction at all. Still, the fact that its creators saw fit it to have it masquerade as science fiction merits comment.<\/p>\n

The story line is simple…
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Wayward Pines – The (Hidden) Truth<\/h2>\n

With the appearance of episode five, Wayward Pines<\/i> suddenly became interesting. Up to that point, the series appeared to be no more than a shoddy American remake of the even shoddier British remake of what is arguably the greatest television series ever done \u2014 Patrick McGoohan\u2019s The Prisoner<\/i>. (Benighted readers of this review who are unfamiliar with that majestic narrative should not even bother with either of these limping xerox successors…<\/p>\n

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Why In God’s Name Do I Like The Flash?<\/em><\/h2>\n

I like The Flash. I\u2019ve seen every episode, I\u2019ve enjoyed every episode, and I look forward to the coming episodes.<\/p>\n

Yet each time I am absolutely puzzled as to why. It\u2019s the sort of show I viscerally despise; its worst elements are so awful you wince; it\u2019s horrible!<\/em> Yet I can\u2019t enough of it.<\/p>\n

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Ambiguities Of Justice<\/h2>\n

Ancillary Justice, the first novel by Ann Leckie, went on to win nearly every prestigious science fiction award of the year. \u00a0And not surprisingly. \u00a0By SF standards \u2014 such as they are \u2014 it is an exceptional book. \u00a0Perhaps the most exceptional thing about it is that it is impressive even by non-SF standards. \u00a0How often, reading science fiction, does one feel the clear influence not of Heinlein or Asimov but Conrad? \u00a0How often does the writing make you think, even just slightly, of Hemingway?…<\/p>\n

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Robot Overlords<\/h2>\n

Robot Overlords is not so much disappointing, as laughable and disappointing. One hoped for better \u2014 or, at least, different \u2014 solely on the basis of its British origin. After all, American science fiction film no longer even pretends to originality: it\u2019s a marketing product pure and simple, endlessly re-packaging the same paranoiac power-fantasy tropes\u2014 the loathsome incomprehensible Other beaten to a pulp by the superhuman-yet-average-joe hero in glorious special-effects-laden technicolor…<\/p>\n

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A Young Man’s Book<\/h2>\n

I was really hoping that I would like John Scalzi\u2019s An Old Man\u2019s War. Scalzi writes an entertaining blog, he\u2019s well spoken of, is a Hugo notable and a former SFWA President. I particularly liked the way he went about getting it published. Legend has it Scalzi serialized the book on his blog in 2002 and, miraculously, got an offer from a slumming editor from Tor. Three years later it was out in hardcover, and one year after that it was a Hugo Best Novel nominee. Good Lord, could a good book and quality writing triumph after all?…<\/p>\n

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Long Earth Short Fuse<\/h2>\n

The Long Earth begins by trotting out a classic SF trope: eccentric loner scientist X devises an Amazing Machine with Unexpected World-Changing Consequences. This one lets people \u201cstep,\u201d ie, step into a parallel adjoining earth, and step easily, with barely a pop. Moreover one can just as easily step into the next and the next and the next, although one generally has to do so in that order. (You can\u2019t hop from World #1 to World #1,000 without going through all the intermediary ones first.)…<\/p>\n

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The Kingdom Of Auschwitz Is Within You<\/h2>\n

I sometimes think the only science fiction of any real value is social science fiction. \u00a0Where, after all, is the SF technology of yesteryear, the hover cars, the light sabres, the photon torpedos? \u00a0Where are the galactic empires, the landing tentacled Martians? All that may be a welcome and entertaining\u00a0escape from the here and now, but here and now is where we are. \u00a0How do we deal with it \u2014 transform it? \u00a0 Social science fiction, by presenting\u00a0images of feasible alternative societies, offers us not escapism but\u00a0up the possibility of real<\/em> escape. \u00a0That is why it is dangerous. \u00a0And, as a rule, unpopular…<\/p>\n

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