I was expecting a story about starships, adventure, and far-flung planets. Instead, I was rewarded with a haunting and touching tale about love, loss, and survival during the last days of humanity.
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Review: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Before delving in to the Revelation Space universe I first suggest perusing the chronology and consider reading the books in order. This is Part 4 in my series of reviews focusing on […]
Review: Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors. But unfortunately Zodiac is not one of my favorite books. Neal Stephenson Zodiac is named after the rigid inflatable boat that is […]
Retro Review: Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Nova was published in 1968 before Samuel R. Delany entered his more experimental writing phase, beginning chiefly with the monstrous Dhalgren. It’s a tale that can be consumed and interpreted […]
Retro Review: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
One person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley has been a book long in my library, always in the reading queue (aren’t they all?) but […]
Review: Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Before delving in to the Revelation Space universe I first suggest perusing the chronology and consider reading the books in order. This is Part 3 in my series of reviews focusing on […]
Review: The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
Update: Future editions of The Prefect will be titled Aurora Rising, and the sequel (previously referred to as The Prefect 2) will be titled Elysium Fire . . . which will […]
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
I would have entitled this book “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comma” but that would be hard to do since I didn’t write it. But as […]
Review: The Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden
Never judge a book by its cover, so the mantra goes. In the case of Simon Morden’s Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy I threw that right out the window. There I was […]
Review: Dragondoom by Dennis L. McKiernan
Dragondoom by Dennis L. McKiernan may just be the best fantasy novel you’ve never read. Over the years Dennis L. McKiernan has been accused of borrowing, if not stealing, the […]
Retro Review: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Gateway by Frederik Pohl is a simple story about a complex man that takes place in a setting that lends itself to a myriad of adventures both enriching and terrifying…usually […]
Newton’s Wake: A Space Opera by Ken Macleod
I recently took a long hiatus from reading. Things tend to get in the way of pursuits of passion…typically work. When it was time to pick up another fiction book […]