Seveneves Neal Stephenson Published May 19 2015 Score: 8/10 Seveneves. Palindromes are awesome. So is this novel. In Seveneves, the world is ending. Not some vague time in the future, but in two years. And no, there will be no lucky survivors; the atmosphere is going to burn up, the oceans will evaporate and …
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Review – Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy (and the rest of the Imperial Radch trilogy) Ann Leckie Published Oct 6 2015 Score: 9.5/10 The conclusion of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy. As the final book in the trilogy, I doubt it stands alone. Hard to tell since I’ve read all three, but I just cannot imagine being able to …
Review – The Chaplain’s War by Brad R. Torgersen
The Chaplain’s War Brad R. Torgersen Published Oct. 7 2014 Rating: 5.5/10 My last review before I start to look at Hugo nominees, and no, I didn't not intend to review Torgersen's book while talking about the Hugos, it just took longer to read than I envisioned. You may notice that I changed my …
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2016 Hugo Award Nominations
The 2016 Hugo Awards Today is the day. This is the first year I have been a member of Worldcon, and therefore the first year I am able to vote in the prestigious Hugo Awards. The Hugos were first held in 1953, and have come to be considered one of the most important awards …
Review – The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft
The Shadow Out of Time H.P. Lovecraft Published June 1936 Stars: 4 I was thinking I’d avoid reviewing books that were purely horror or fantasy with no elements of science fiction. I might lesson that stance in the future, but for now I don’t have to. I came into this story expecting standard Lovecraft …
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On a Lovecraft Binge
On a Lovecraft Binge I wasn’t quite sure what I felt like reading next, so I opened my Kindle and went browsing through my copy of The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft. I read Rats in the Wall, Shadow Out of Time, and Shadow Over Innsmouth one after the other. Since Lovecraft is a horror …
The Mouse
For years, my Aunty has been saying how I told her this story about a mouse when I was little (7 or 8) and that she wrote it down and would one day find it and give it to me. That day was today. Or, yesterday I suppose. Anyway she dropped off the story, and after …
Review – Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
Review #3 Beacon 23 Hugh Howey Published April 12 2015 Stars: 5 Last year, the Silo series blew me away. Great characters, great world building, and a really chilling looking into the human condition. Common themes in Howey’s works are - to put it in his own words - about “overcoming odds and of …
Review – Transpecial by Jennifer R. Povey
Review #2 Transpecial Jennifer R. Povey Published April 2013 Stars: 3 As soon as I heard about this book I had to get it. First Contact complicated by the alien’s body language making humans fly into an instinctual blind rage? An autistic savant gifted with languages being the only person able to both remain …
Review – All The Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Review #1 All The Birds in the Sky By Charlie Jane Anders Stars: 4 Ah, a fantasy set in the real world. Been a while since I read a work of low fantasy, and All the Birds in the Sky is a wonderful, whimsical, original take on the genre. The thing that really makes …
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