Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Alex Rider- Point Blank


Point Blank is a interesting book which includes many hi-tech gadgets. those include a dart shooting harry potter book, a Sony Discman that was a CD Saw, a bulletproof ski suit and night vision goggles. M16, the britan spy association wants Alex to find out whats going on at Point Blanc, the school for rich people who sent their children there for either shoplifting, drugs or pickpocketing. Then, Alex encounters a scientists called Dr. Greif. he's doing something that doesn't want people to know. and the people there are like brainwashed. Mostly like 007.


Thursday, February 11, 2010

City Of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

This book is the first book of the series"the book of Ember". This story talks about a city which is underground to save the humans from extinction. The city was made for the humans to live temporarily. If they lived there for too long, the city electricity will die and so will the people over there. The city escape instructions was already planned for the city citizens. All the people must do was to wait until the city was almost dead then to use the instructions. The instructions are given to the first mayor of the city. Then it was passed on to the second, the third, and so on. However, the instruction was given to the seventh mayor, he died instantly and the instruction was lost.

After 200 years, the city was pretty soon in destruction. The food was running low, the generator which provided electricity is starting to break..etc. A girl called Lina Mayfleet knew the city will die so she trying to help the city. A boy called Goon also want to save the city. Can both of them find the instructions and escape the city?

The book is set in the underground to save some people from getting killed from the wars on the upper ground. This may be our future is wars get too destructive and dangerous.
I think this book is very interesting and from this review, i bet you will want to know more about this city because of the future. The story was written very well it inspire you to read more about it. There is also 3 more books of this series called "People Of Sparks"(i already written a review about it), "The Prophet of Yonwood, and "The Diamond of Darkhold". I recommend this awesome book to science fiction book readers and people interested in the future.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan

The lightning thief is about a boy called
Percy Jackson, being one of the worst behaving students. He had been kicked out by school for uncountable times. Until one day, he met minotaur, yes, the one and only minotaur. In fact, the same one that the son of Poseidon, Theseus killed over two thousand years ago. After the battle, Percy fainted, as he woke up, he realized he was sent to this place called camp Half- Blood.
This is when everything goes wrong, Percy was told that his mom has dies during his fight with the minotaur. He realized his best friend Grover was a satyr and was to protect him from danger. After that he saw someone that looked exactly the same as his history teacher, Mr. Brunner. Yes, he is Mr. Brunner but his real name was actually Chiron Kentavros, the activities director in camp Half- Blood. Later on, he was introduced to Mr. D, the camp director. Do you know what Mr. D stands for? Dionysus, the god of wine! You know who he also met? The daughter of Athena, the goddess of war. The worst thing was that he was sent to cabin eleven which are people who still doesn't know who their mom or dad is. His adventure in camp Half- Blood is starting to begin.
I liked the part when everyone was playing 'Capture the flag' because there were a lot of action going on. It was also when Percy found out who his father was. The lightning thief is a fantastical blend of myth and modern. I recommend this book to everyone, especially the ones who loves myths and gods. This book is a must read.

The Founding - Dan Abnett


This book is Great (even though its 767 pages long), but who cares because its so good.

What makes this book easier to read is the fact that it is a series of four short books, the first is called First and only and is about Gaunts Ghosts (they are all about Them though) an elite fighting force lead by the strong and cunning Colonel-Comissar Ibram Gaunt who have been tasked with finding an increadible and rare peice of technology that had the power to win the humans the entire galaxy.

The second is called Ghostmaker and is a flash back to the founding of the Ghosts back on Tanth.

I have not finnished the other two books but am sure that they will be just as good as the other two.

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion

The House of the Scorpion is an incredibly famous book by Nancy Farmer. It is about how a boy named Matteo Alcatran, who is actually a clone of a very famous drug lord ,El Patron, who is the ruler of a land called opium. The story starts when Matt (Matteo) is been born and taken care of a lady called Celia. She takes care of Matt and raises him

Matt is not allowed to see any children because he lives in a distant land. So one day when some children come playing near his house, he feels very nervous about the children. But on the second day he tries to speak up when one of the girls say “Hi’ to him. He suddenly goes mad, picks up a flower vase and throws it at the glass from where he was looking from. The glass shatters and there were the pieces of glass, all over the floor and also on the ground. He then jumps onto the ground, unknowingly of the glass pieces, barefoot.

Matt howls in pain as he falls to the ground. The three children feel sorry for him, and take him to their mansion which is called the Alcatran Estate. Matt is taken to the hospital wing there. Once they find out that Matt is a clone, they begin to treat him really badly, because clones are said to be “dirty animals” in the Kingdom of Alcatran”. They then put him in a room with just a bed, Celia living with him. Sometime later Celia had to go, due to some work. The maid there, (at the Alcatran house) Rosa, treats him extremely terribly, by taking his bed, putting lots of hay in his room, and by not letting him do anything.

This is just the beginning, of this beautifully written science-fiction novel by Nancy Farmer. Later on Matt meets many new people, and together, they are taken on a huge adventure, which helps solve a mystery… of the Alcatran Estate.

The Golden Compass - By Philip Pullman

The story is set in a world where people's souls are visible. These souls were called daemons. If one's daemon died, it's owner would also die too.
Lyra was an ordinary girl, adventurous and competitive. She is also very playful and dreams of going to foreign countries and exploring exotic places.
She studys at Jordan's College in Oxford. Jordan's college was her home, school, everything she had, apart from her uncle, Lord Asriel. Her daemon, Pantalaimon, was always by her side, no matter where they were or what the situation was.
Everything was perfect until Mrs. Coulter came to Oxford. Lyra waas asked to go with Mrs. Coulter up to the North. Before she left, the master of the college gave her an alethiometer, which was a device that answered any question the user asked, but it was complicated to use. During the journey, Lyra finds out that Mrs. Coulter was trying to separate children from their daemons. That's when Lyra decides to escape and save the children in captive. Will Lyra succeed? Or will Mrs. Coulter emerge victorious?



Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The People Of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau


This book is the second book of the series "the book of Ember". This story talks about the people of Ember after escaping from their ruined city. They arrived a village called Sparks. The people of Sparks were happy to help them for 6 months to teach them how to survive in the wild by their own. However, during the time, the people of Ember had a conflict with the people of Sparks. Can they have peace and not to declare war on each other?

The main characters are Goon and Lina who are the ones who found the exit out of Ember.

This book is about the future of our world. You will all think the future will be nice, cool, exciting...etc. However, in this story, the future is the opposite. The population of the world is less than now, people live in ruin houses from the past, they have poor machinery...etc. They are like living in the middle ages.

I like this book very much, I like the beginning of the story because of how the author describe the scene about the people of Ember coming to the village.

I RECOMMENDED THIS BOOK TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE

Thursday, January 28, 2010

jurasic park by Micheal Crichton


This book is good for all the fans of the Jurasic Park movies.

I recomend this book for all the good readers out there because the language is a little hard.This book is a little violent , and has alot of adventure.


Micheal Crichton used alot of detail to write this book .
He wrote alot of good books.For example he wrote Prey,Pirate latitudes and Next