This one had been on my TBR list for a while, and I finally got around to it, and it is a strange and wonderful ride! SEMIOSIS by Sue Burke, her debut and Arthur C. Clarke Award nominated novel, is pure brilliance. When human colonists, who seek to flee Earth's violent ways settle on a … Continue reading Review: Semiosis
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Review: Guava Summer
Onto our second installment in the FUTURES series from Radix Media, which is GUAVA SUMMER by Vera Kurian. One of my favorite titles in the series and contains a rather complex plot of what happens when people have had enough. Sawtelle is a somewhat quiet place, for a place under authoritarian world. We follow on … Continue reading Review: Guava Summer
Review: Children of Time
What if the planet you are attempting to colonize is already occupied? This is the question that Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CHILDREN OF TIME attempts to answer, but while doing so, asks so many more questions along the way. When an ark ship, holding what remains of humanity, comes upon a long-forgotten project of Old Earth, a … Continue reading Review: Children of Time
Review: The Freeze-Frame Revolution
It's been awhile since I couldn't put a sci-fi novella down and when I had to with this one, I did begrudgingly(darn kids!). I really could have read this in one sitting, because Watts just makes everything so tense and so utterly readable. We have our protagonist Sunday on a one way trip across the … Continue reading Review: The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Review: Borne
What a strange and wild ride. This was a really great read and anyone looking for a more "biotech" sort of dystopia, this has to be your first pick. Anyone willing to tolerate a bit of weird in the mix of their fiction, then you will be in good hands here, then again has Vandermeer … Continue reading Review: Borne
Review: The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)
This review has been waiting for a long time, but it has been so long since I have read such a satisfying trilogy of stories. Binti rushes home when her village is attacked by Koush soldiers and it will be up to her to broker a peace between them and the Meduse. Her efforts may … Continue reading Review: The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)
Review: Ready Player One
Man, do I have some mixed feelings about this book. There's a lot to unpack here, but at the same time(with no disrespect to Earnest Cline) I don't believe the work is meant to be all that deep. Ready Player One is a love letter to geek culture and all the franchises birthed in the 80s … Continue reading Review: Ready Player One
Reveiw: Dark Run
DARK RUN by Mike Brooks is an awesome book! Semi-hard science fiction cast into the future after the great human diaspora into the stars. We find Captain Ichabod Drift with his crew looking to leave their past behind, but become wrapped up in a smuggling run that will change their lives forever. Old regrets and … Continue reading Reveiw: Dark Run
Review: Agents of Dreamland
Caitlin Kiernan has written a work that takes time to get into, but like an aged Scotch it needs time to sit well. How can a narrative that includes an undying, lich woman, a freelance contractor, and mysterious spores that preclude the end of the world all have in common? They are all in this … Continue reading Review: Agents of Dreamland
Review: Rime
Rime, by Tim Lebbon, was my first Kindle Single that I got my hands on and I will say that I was not disappointed, in fact, far from it. The title is an homage to Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the story itself is a sci-fi repackaging of Coleridge's poem. For contemporary readers, who have read the original, this … Continue reading Review: Rime
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