Genres: Science Fiction
All Systems Red – Martha Wells
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I’d heard about this series for a while but didn’t really know what it was about until I watched the Apple TV season and it was excellent there. So I put the book on hold at my library and got it yesterday and it did not disappoint. We follow Murderbot as he realizes he has
Artemis – Andy Weir
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In this book we follow Jasmine (Jazz) on the Artemis colony on the Moon. She’s a smuggler and generally gets up to shenanigans involving smuggling and in this book some sabotage. While I loved The Martian and Hail Mary, this book wasn’t one I loved. I even read it a second time now, first read
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
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This book started off slow and while it sped up a bit, it was never a breakneck paced science fiction thriller. It’s firmly a character driven story that has some science fiction as a background to how the characters come to interact. The final few chapters do suddenly increase in pace as a bunch of
A Witch’s Sin – Daniel B Greene
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Welcome to a world of technology embedded in your body, where ads can blare at you at any time and an open window means you’ve granted permission for a drone to broadcast further ads into your personal living space. In this world we meet Taya, and learn that there are honest to goodness vampires. Taya
Limit of Vision – Linda Nagata
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This book explores the evolution of human-kind as the combine with LOV’s, artificial brains designed by humans, in what at times appears to be a race to “beat” AI and at times feels like a slapped together concept that never really lands. For me the book felt rushed most of the time, like there was
The Language of the Night – Ursula K. Le Guin
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This is a compilation of many essays by Le Guin on writing and writing science fiction in particular. She deals with the pronouns used in sci-fi to describe characters, with special updated notes covering her newer thoughts on “he” as a gender neutral pronoun (she doesn’t believe it is in the 1980’s like she did
The Toll – Neal Shusterman
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This is the final book in the Arc of the Scythe series. Citra and Rowan have disappeared and Scythe Goddard has nothing standing in his way to his dream of unchecked killing by his new order of Scythe’s. I found the book had me on the edge of my seat, just like the whole series
Thunderhead – Neal Shusterman
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Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of the Scythe series. This follows Anastasia as she tries to “glean” with compassion while openly challenging the new order of Scythes that want to gain more power over the world. I found the world compelling and will read through the whole series again.
Howling Dark – Christopher Rucchio
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This entry in the Sun Eater Series takes us to Vorgossos, a land out of literal mythology with the current resident taking up the realms of stories told to children. Hadrian attempts to broker peace with the Ceilcin, but Bassander has other plans and is “only following orders”. Death and life happen for many of
Empire of Silence – Christopher Ruocchico
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Empire of Silence is the notes of a world destroying warrior reflecting on what really happened to put him in the position to destroy a massive part of the universe. Hadrian doesn’t start out as a hero, he’s running from family obligations which takes him from the pinnacle of society to the streets to fighting
