Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favorite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live...

Where I protest SOPA by "stealing" Other's content

Many bloggers, and several big websites, are blocking their sites today in protest of the SOPA and PIPA bills which would allow Internet censorship in the US. As a non-US resident I'm not sure how such a bill would affect me or my blog, but the idea of it is still abhorrent to me and so is worth talking about. For specific reasons why the SOPA and PIPA bills should not be passed, watch this video. Though Jennie Lawson had me at "...it would be like...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of January 15

This week is the release of The Flame Alphabet, by Ben Marcus,and while I'm not sure if I'll be reading it the book trailer certainly got my attention. It's seriously intense and eerie. And here are more of this week's new book releases... Science Fiction  Shadows In Flight (Shadow, Bk 5)Orson Scott CardPublisher: TorRelease Date: January 17 Ender’s Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel... At the end of Shadow of the Giant,...