Despite the high praise on the back cover and intriguing premise, this novel left me feeling kinda meh. The worldbuilding and the plot were at least interesting enough that I wanted to keep going for awhile, and I did manage to make it through twelve chapters before setting it aside. However, the ...
Pierwszy tom cyklu "Ogień ludzkości" wprowadza nas w niezwykle interesujący wszechświat, w którym ludzkości zajrzała w oczy groźba całkowitej eksterminacji. By przetrwać opracowano rozpaczliwy plan wysłania w przestrzeń trzech statków kosmicznych, swoistych ark, których zadaniem jest podtrzymanie ga...
I'm not really certain why I had trouble following this book. It wasn't really holding me -- but that could have been external circumstances as much as the book. Insofar as the book itself goes -- it's got the elements of really epic space opera that I truly enjoy converging on a single point, and I...
Any book recommended by [a:Iain M. Banks|5807106|Iain M. Banks|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1352410520p2/5807106.jpg] has got to be worth a read and this one was worth it. The first in a trilogy – Humanity's Fire – it tells the story of a human community escaped from a doomed Earth ...
This is an anthology of contemporary SF short stories thematically linked by conflict. Although that is conflict in quite a broad sense; these aren't all tales of war and battle. In fact, I was suprised by the range in this collection and I found myself generally favouring the more thought provoking...