PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 My Musings India’s greatest storyteller is back again after a long gap. After penning masterpieces such as The Krishna Key, The Rozabal Line,… [Continue Reading]
Europa | Hywel Richard Pinto | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTER: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Europa opens with a tantalising scene of Captain Sparks, completely consumed by lust, finds himself in the mouth of the most feared fictional… [Continue Reading]
Ice Bound | Hywel Richard Pinto | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Ice Bound is based in 2034 on the post-apocalyptic earth – a new world, where only faint traces of the old world remain… [Continue Reading]
The Alien Conspiracy | Krishna Sriteja D. | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 It’s not every day that you come across an Indian science fiction novel and thus finally when you find one, it is hard… [Continue Reading]
Skyfire | Aroon Raman | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 It’s not every day that you come across a great book but when you do, it is hard to pull yourself out of… [Continue Reading]
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 2/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 There is nothing quite as irksome as a promising book that fails to deliver. Despite its potential, Ernest Cline’s poorly executed science fiction/fantasy debut “Ready Player… [Continue Reading]
Memories with Maya | Clyde Dsouza | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Science fiction stories are always fascinating. The technology involved and the settings are almost always futuristic, and to see how the world in… [Continue Reading]
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 When it comes to books, I’m largely a fantasy-oriented guy. I haven’t read too many science-fiction books but Douglas Adam’s comic sci-fi series,… [Continue Reading]
Lexicon | Max Barry | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Reading a lot of books can be good and bad. On the one hand, one can learn a lot from books, fiction or… [Continue Reading]
