The Best of this Year’s Science-Fiction Releases
The science fiction genre of novels is a crowded one. Overflowing with colorful covers, intensely detailed plots, and trilogies by the handful it one can easily see why it is so hard to find a good novel. Thankfully 2011 had some great surprises in store. Listed below are two of this years best science fiction works.
First on the list is “Heaven’s Shadow” by David Goyer. If the name strikes you as familiar it is because David Goyer is the screen writer for the hit films: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and the Blade trilogy. David has established his pedigree.I found some more information here. This story, however, is about two rival teams of astronauts trying to claim an unknown object falling from space. What they find is no asteroid but instead an alien spacecraft with unknown intentions towards the human race.
“Soft Apocalypse” by Will McIntosh is the full fleshing out of his short story that, in 2005, made it to the finals of the 2005 British Sci Fi awards. This is his debut novel but his abilities are well documented. Set as a traditional apocalypse story, McIntosh integrates various styles of writing as he documents the remnants of the survivors of the prior apocalypse as they make their way in this new and dangerous world.