In its ongoing service to humanity at large and sci-fi-loving humanity in particular, SF Signal (Twitter: @sfsignal) presents an excellent “getting started guide” for those who have an interest in all or some part of the meta-genre but may have been put off by the seemingly inexhaustible ways that science fiction can be offputting.
Click on over to any of these fine blogs listed below for the full reviews and see what people are saying about KiTE. Or just go ahead and buy it by clicking this: KiTE is hard science fiction with heart.
The Bec-ster “This storyline is so new it just compelled me to want to keep reading. I had to see how it all ended.”
Syncopated Musings “KiTE is not one of those books where you can check your brain at the door when you open its cover and begin to read.”
Elizabeth Mueller “If computer programs wanted to take over the world, this would be the right book for them.”
I am a Pistacio “Mr. Shears writes with a flavor reminiscent of Douglas Adams, but the resulting dish is entirely his own. Quite tasty.”
J. Lloyd Morgan
“When the “twist” of the book is revealed at the end, I found myself smiling. It was certainly clever.…I will give the following praise to the book: it’s like nothing I’ve read before. The author stays true to the tone and pacing of the book, which is always a plus.”
Haven’t read KiTE yet? What are you waiting for? KiTE is hard sci-fi with heart.Check these sites for reviews, a Shears interview, commenting and at least one giveaway at these book-loving blogs, starting about now and ongoing for a few weeks:
The Outer Limits, with its famous “There is nothing wrong with your televison set…” opening was an early Sixties science fiction anthology series. Somewhat monster- and alien-oriented, many of the episodes still hold up. One such is embedded below: “Duplicate Man”, written by Hugo Award winner Clifford D. Simak. What happens when you discover that you are a clone?
The Simak WikiPedia page cites the foreward of his short fiction collection Skirmish, noting that Simak thought of “Good Night, Mr. James” — the story on which this teleplay was based — as a vicious story: “…so vicious that it is the only one of my stories adapted to television.”
Full episodes of The Outer Limits can be found on Hulu.
Not such a glacial shift, really, but for a few reasons: one big one that will become apparent soon, and two because of a recent high tech failure. Our front line graphics-chewing PC died. We’ll work to revive it, or something, soon. Gaming topics and reviews will have to be set aside for the duration. Science fiction will be the focus for the nonce, though it has never really left InfinityBound. Near-future, HARD sci-fi story-telling in all media is our main thing. We are ride the boundary between speculative life–it’s not just about the technology, you know–and the real world…as we now know it. Of course we are not limiting to that by any stretch, all sci-fi is fair game and we’ll even stretch into paranormal. But we promise, no teen vampires.
And we’ve recently been brushing up on our dystopia recently as well (again, for reasons etc etc ….stay tuned)
The other night we screened Children of Men, which was better than not, and we’ll give it a mini- review next. Film reviews are much less time-consuming than game reviews, so hopefully it will mean more posts . Two hours letting the subject wash over you and then write. Game reviews, well the way we like to do them anyway, can take over your life for weeks. Soon as we get our A-game technology back in gear we’ll do more.
The Beekeeper is satisfied to tend his hives and live his life after getting bounced by his rival at a high tech mega-corporation until he’s called upon to go back up into Earth orbit. A mysterious unaccounted-for supply pod is returning to intersect the orbit of the new space casino. The Beekeeper is the only one, on the planet or off, who can deal with it.
SF Signal, Science Fiction | bshears May 14, 2011 | 
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