A day late (though hopefully not a dollar short), here's my "second bingo week" summary; and it's a summary of a much better week than the first one turned out to be. (So, yey!) For one thing this is due to the books, all of which were either outright winners or at least enjoyable on some level or...
Spoiler warning! There will be some spoilers for Six of Crows and Ruin and Rising, the final book in Bardugo's Grisha trilogy in this review. There will also be some spoilers about the ending of this book, which means it's best to avoid this whole review until you've read both these excellent books ...
A classic Adult SF that stands up better than some but still has issues. The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it a...
I'm going to be screaming until September 27th. Four chapters and I'm once again a mess. My God. This book can't come soon enough.
Zakia and Ali met and fell in love working in their families' adjacent fields in rural Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Zakia's father would not allow them to marry because of religious and ethnic differences. The couple ran away together to get married, resulting in Zakia's father filing criminal charges ag...
My review of the audiobook I listened to this past week.
Well, this just isn't happening. Not right now, at least. I just can't concentrate on the audiobook. The narrator has a really flat delivery, which is just dragging it down for me. Maybe I'll try this again, on paper.
This is good old-fashioned hard SF space exploration yarn. The first interstellar colony ship, first people on a new planet, you've read this before — colonists figuring out the climate and ecology of a new world, improvising all the things they couldn't bring from home, having fatal encounters with...
I wouldn't call this exactly a story with a conflict. It's much closer to a travelogue of a group of people's explorations through the interior of Science Fiction's greatest Big Dumb Object.
This is a typical hard-SF novel from Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was famous for epic science and exploration (e.g., "2001"), but not for his characterization, and it shows here. While a planet-sized alien artifact flying through the solar system should engender a sense of awe, I found myself bored thro...
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