Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A good story set against a brilliant vision of the future solar system. I love the setting so much, especially all the political interplay. The characters were a bit of a reach for me at first, especially Miller’s obsession with the dead girl. I […]
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(for Damon Knight) Though Riley awakens only two hours after falling asleep, her alarm will not negotiate peace. By the time the coffee’s aroma pervades the kitchen, she realizes she will never shake off this hangover in time to confront the office smilers where she interns at Life Inc., America’s premier self-help conglomerate. She sighs
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Autonomous by Annalee NewitzMy rating: 4 of 5 stars I really liked Autonomous. I thought Newitz’s vision of a future world with drug patent hoarding corporations and pirates willing to defy them scarily realistic. I also thoroughly enjoyed the embedded discussion of capitalism’s overreach of claiming human biological data, and the implicit criticism of how
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is brilliant literary science fiction. I will discuss the literary aspects of it in a moment, but first it’s important to place it squarely in the domain of science fiction. First, under Darko Suvin’s definition of sci fi, the
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The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane AndersMy rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s tough to review this one without spoilers and still convey the essentials, because the worldbuilding is so unique, so let me give a one-liner first and you can choose to move on if you wish: I give
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane AndersMy rating: 5 of 5 stars All the birds… is such an enchanting story, a true modern fairy tale that still finds time to dig deep into doomsday ethics and build venn diagrams of science and magic. The characters spoke to me. I love how well
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Dawn by Octavia E. ButlerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars What a great story!Terrifying and seductive and such awesome world building. These may be my favorite aliens ever.Humans are predictably uncivilized showing all our worse traits, but Octavia Butler is a realist and holds nothing back. Our antipathy to aliens lies deep within our core
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Six Wakes by Mur LaffertyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A brilliant novel with so many delicious treats: mindmaps and cloning and a murder mystery with a big payoff. I loved the characters but the solution of the crime is pure gold. What an awesome story!!! View all my reviews
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Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha LeeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Brilliant story. The worldbuilding of Ninefox Gambit comes to fruition here. The story also packs a killer plot twist & reveal, though there is plenty of foreshadowing of the possibility, so it’s both surprising and inevitable. One of my favorite 2017 sci-fi novels. 🙂
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha LeeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Not only a good novel, this is also a window into an enormous world in conflict, and it begins in media res, with brutal and confusing warfare. At the center of the story is Kel Cheris, an infantry captain and brilliant mathematician, and Shuos
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After several years of political influence that resulted in No Award votes for the Hugo Awards, this year’s were largely uncontroversial, but the results were surprising to many who are not paying attention to SFF. A picture is better to convey the information: Also, N.K. Jemisin who just finished The Broken Earth trilogy. Her series
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A Wrinkle In Time Click to read story about how A Wrinkle in Time was rejected many times before being published.
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