A novella that punches above its weight, delivering a well-imagined, skilfully revealed future where a young and poor underclass of 'Firewalkers' risk their lives to service the global billionaire elite as they prepare to escape a dying Earth and leave the rest of us to burn. My experience wit...
by Adrian Tchaikovski This is written in a present tense monologue, detailing the experiences of a man lost in a place on Mars he calls The Crypts. His goal is to survive and hopefully to find other humans. I have to admit that the writing style didn't engage me. There were humorous moments and ...
This was a short novella about an astronaut wandering some weird alien structure in space. The alien structure is a doorway to a complex of twisting corridors that sometimes lead to other doors at other stars. Basically, it’s Fae roads in space, complete with monsters that want to eat you and other ...
I'm surprised to find myself abandoning this book a quarter of the way through (a little over four hours of listening). I really enjoyed Adrian Tchaikovsky's "The Dogs Of War" and I expected "Children Of Time" to be even better. I settled down for sixteen hours of epic science fiction and found that...
The sun is dying and there is only one city left in the world. Outside of this city there is only desert and jungle through which strange creatures wander. Stefan Advani is a young graduate, who after leaving the academy, has led a chequered life and finds himself sent to The Island, a floating pris...
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]A short book (more novella than novel) about exploration, the unknown, first contact(s), and horrors lurking in the darkness.The narrator, Gary Rendell, is an astronaut who got separated from his crew while explorin...
"Dogs Of War" is an engaging, original, intriguing and accessible Science Fiction. I'm a sucker for anything to do with dogs so how could I resist something that starts: "My name is Rex. I am a good dog."? Ok, Rex is a partly dog-based bioform, engineered to carry out the kinds of acts of war ...
This was a bit of work to get into. Maniye is the daughter of a Wolf clan chieftain and a kidnapped Tiger Clan queen. She can shift into both shapes but now she's getting to an age where she needs to choose one or suffer consequences. However her father has plans and they are not for her. When she r...
This book is still unadulterated awesome the third time through (second time by audio). I love how it came down to the acceptance of the other through empathy and I love the alien spider mentality. Also, Holsten's mini-breakdowns were plausible and really fun to read. Seriously, it's unadulterat...
This was the surprise book of the year for me. When my book club selected this for our reading list I pretty much immediately decided it would be my skip for the year - I don't like giant doorstoppers and I hate spiders, so a 600 page epic about space spiders sounded dreadful. As the date grew close...
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