I enjoyed it. Solid world-building, interesting SF premise, plenty of action and plot development to keep me turning pages. Character development was the weakest area, but things perked up at the end, enough to make me feel somewhat invested in individual characters. I'm looking forward to the nex...
When I was a little girl, this was some time ago, and I turned on the TV, all the shows where populated with male heroes who wielded swords and guns and always, always, always saved a woman who was in distress. Even at a young age this made me angry. I wanted the girl to get up, picked up a gun and ...
I love post-apocalyptic scifi, and from that perspective, this book stands out. Surprisingly, it's also a zombie book, but offers a slightly different breed of zombies, created by something the mysterious aliens who dropped off the elevator did. The worldbuilding is well developed, but as others hav...
I received this through the GoodReads first reads program.I really enjoyed this book. I never thought of myself as a science fiction fan. I generally dislike books based in space, but this book took place in space and on land and was a perfect high-tech apocalyptic book.It kept me engrossed to the v...
Genre: Science Fiction Recommended to: Readers who really enjoy science fiction and world building in their reads. First Thoughts: The Darwin Elevator caught me up in its premise initially. Anything compared to Josh Whedon and John Scalzi makes me take notice. I expected some action, space travel...
I'm a picky reader when I take on light sci-fi/dystopias: I don't want to spend a long time trying to get up to speed; I hate fight scenes; I have a high squick factor when it comes gooey bodies, be they diseased or zombified; and loads of technical jargon make my eyes glaze. Happily The Darwin Ele...
Skyler Luiken captains the Melville, a typical smuggler ship with a typical smuggler crew doing typical smuggler things. At least, that's how it seems, but from the first few moments spent with Skyler, it's obvious that he's anything but the typical cocky captain that we know from scifi classics lik...
A space elevator - as an idea, a maybe-semi-realistic, but very much science fiction concept - is something I've been vaguely aware of for a very long time. I haven't actually read a book utilising that idea before - now this may be because I'm relatively unfamiliar with "hard" science fiction (or a...
Update: my interview with the author about his book, writing process, nanowrimo... http://bibliosanctum.blogspot.com/2013/07/interview-with-jason-m-hough-author-of.htmlWow, what a pleasant surprise this was. My thanks to NetGalley and Del Rey for providing me with an e-ARC of The Darwin Elevator in ...
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