Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin Yes, that George R.R. Martin - the same guy behind the Game of Thrones / Song of Ice & Fire phenomenon. This is an earlier work of his (first published in 1985), and it's something completely different. This group of short(ish)...
Book Review: The Age of Miracles
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker "On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, 11-year-old Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow." (from the book...
Standalone Sci-Fi/Fantasy
I've heard people who don't read science fiction & fantasy say that The Reason they don't is because they don't want to get into a long series. It's all trilogies and quintets and omg-neverending-looking-at-you-Wheel-of-Time processions of books. They say that a good...
Book Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) by Patrick Ness Let me start by saying that I'm glad Alycia posted about this book and recommended it, because I probably wouldn't have found it otherwise. It's the story of Todd, the last young boy in Prentisstown, a...
Book Review: A Talent for War
A Talent for War (Alex Benedict #1) By Jack McDevitt I've read other works by McDevitt (the Priscilla Hutchins/Academy series, Eternity Road, Ancient Shores) and been impressed, so I finally got around to trying out his other series. The Talent for War is the first...
Book Review: The Masters of Solitude
The Masters of Solitude By Marvin Kaye and Parke Godwin This was another relic (1978) unearthed on my bookshelves, remnant of a long-ago library sale shopping spree. The Masters of Solitude is a post-apocolyptic story about the divide between the two groups who have...
Book Review: Ice Song
Ice Song By Kirsten Imani Kasai I was very intrigued by this book from the blurb on the back, which prompted me to check it out from the library. And then it was nothing like what the back leads you to believe. For a novel whose main character is a gender-bender...
Book Review: The Ordinary
The Ordinary By Jim Grimsley I picked this book up from the library because it had a very interesting premise: There is one world that is very science-oriented, logical, over-populated and high-tech. There is another world that is flat, plentiful, and where magic is a...
Book Review: Misspent Youth
Misspent Youth By Peter F. Hamilton The book jacket description led me to believe this would be my kind of science fiction - the kind that uses the sci-fi element to explore human psychology and sociology, rather than just being an adventure story set in space or...
Book Review: Flashforward
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer I won a copy of this book from @torbooks on Twitter in a giveaway they did around the time the TV show based off of it premiered. Overall, I thought it a fairly good read. It did what I like to see science fiction do: use the premise...
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