There are some books that demand your full attention and dedication to reading the monster, but they pay off in the end. They’ll never be books you rave about, but you’re glad you read them for one reason or another. (Aurora, 2312, etc.) And there are books like Ninefox Gambit. They demand full atte...
I genuinely hated this book when I started it. It drops you in the middle of some pretty intricate and confusing world-building, bombards you with jargon, and the rules of our reality just don't seem to apply despite the fact all the characters talk about math constantly. I would read two or three p...
“If the Fortress of Scattered Needles had fallen, she would need a way to crack its legendary defences, its shields of invariant ice.” Bang up to date with the 2016 debut SF novel from short story writer Yoon Ha Lee and.... it's a great piece of world-building but a bit of a slog. Lee gives a bravur...
Aliens: Recent Encounters is a decent collection of stories, most dealing with the consequences of encounters between humans and aliens [duh]. I picked it off the new-book shelf at one of my libraries because I saw that it contained works from some of my favorites - Ursula K. Le Guin, Caitlín R. Kie...
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee This book is awesome. And I mean that in the formal sense of the word: my mind is officially blown.There is so much to Ninefox Gambit that it's hard to figure out where to start. The story takes place in a world governed by calendrical systems: in effect, the beliefs,...
Moon Six: ★★★ An astronaut lands on the moon, only to find out it didn't belong to the Earth he comes from. A Brief Guide to Other Histories: ★★★ Meeting your doppelganger can't be good for you. Crystal Halloway & the Forgotten Passage:★★★ We've all been there as kids, we just don't remember. An Emp...
Not sure if it's my poor attention span and distraction causing me issues (read: yeah, it probably is), but I just couldn't get into many of these short stories at all.
One of the better sf collections I've read lately. The bad:"Mazer in Prison" by Orson Scott Card. Mazer Rackham, the first human to defeat the Buggers, is waiting in a near-lightspeed ship for the Buggers to return, or the next human commander to be found. Very disappointing, like most of Card's ...
These stories were very entertaining and imaginative, hosting an entire spectrum of storylines and heroes of different kinds. I was glad to see strong female characters in these stories who could fight just as well and save the day along with their male counterparts.
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