I've been collecting vintage science fiction and fantasy paperbacks for about four years now, so I thought I would do a video about my entire collection—please note that a week after I filmed this back in February, I found a Fantasy book that I forgot to include! I'll show you at some point.
So I recently decided to start watching Star Trek, and let me just say I am obsessed!!!!!!!!
I started off with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds because it's the newest series, and the colourful and fun ads on TikTok (bravo to the Paramount + Social team) made me cave in and subscribe to Paramount + despite being annoyed at the existence of yet another streaming platform!
Let me just say that it took less than 5 mins for me to be hooked!
Then I had to go back to Star Trek: The Original Series because I love the 1960s and the vibe of sci-fi from that era - I'm sure I talk about Retro Futurism all the time. I love the campness, the costumes, the philosophical discussions, Spock's particular brand of sarcasm, Captain Kirk's weird fighting style and the random ways his uniform gets destroyed while everyone else comes off rather fine! I love Uhura; Nichelle Nicols was an icon!!!!!
So it's fair to say that I am fast becoming a Trekkie, and I can't wait to watch all the rest of the TV shows and the Movies!
LoveStar by Andri Snær Magnason is a weird and wacky Sci-Fi novel translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
The book follows a couple, Indri and Sigrid, who love each other desperately until they are calculated apart by an algorithm (think Tinder but without free will), as well as the enigmatic LoveStar (CEO of LoveStar) as he searches for answers after commercializing literally everything in human existence (well there about anyways).
LoveStar is set in an impossibly modern and rather dystopian world of tech and rampant capitalism; think Black Mirror meets 1984, Brave New World by way of the works of Douglas Adams and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Roadside Picnic is a 1972 philosophical science fiction novel by Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It inspired the iconic film from acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky and still feels as relevant today as when it was written.
Welcome back to my blog; here’s a book haul that has not much to do with summer other than the fact that it was filmed during the sunny season.
