Tag Archives: sci-fi
You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
Read March 2022 Recommended, I guess ★ ★ 1/2 First of all, let me do the completely expected and take a moment out of my day and note how Goodreads has completely failed to live up to its function … Continue reading
Thin Air by Richard Morgan. Not very thin at all.
Read February 2022 Recommended for Morgan fans ★ ★ ★ ★ Brutal and twisty. Three weeks later, I’m left thinking I liked it, but in the way one likes junk food or quick and dirty sex (which no doubt comes … Continue reading
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of the scientific method ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This is one of those books that I wish I had found when it was published in 1989, or even in the following decades. I would … Continue reading
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather
Read January 2022 Recommended for fans of the Sisters ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I was going to say something about how this mostly feels like a thoughtful character study, with a little bit of plot thrown in, until I was … Continue reading
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who really like classic sci-fi ★ ★ 1/2 I abandoned this at about page 183. Why? I fully admit much of it is me, in this particular mood in my life at this … Continue reading
Provenance by Ann Leckie
Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who don’t want to commit to the trilogy ★ ★ 1/2 Note to self: Probably you should write a review right after you finish reading, no matter how uninspired you may find … Continue reading
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Read December, 2021 Recommended for sci-fi fans ★ ★ ★ Elder Race, or, a post on which I muse about feelings, productivity, and the futility of blurbing. Goodreads lists over thirty books written by Tchaikovsky, and that’s not including another … Continue reading
Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
Read December, 2021 Recommended for ? ★ ★ If there is any hook guaranteed to make me sit up and pay attention these days, it’s the futuristic mystery-in-space. After the peaks and valleys of the Rosewater series, I wasn’t … Continue reading
We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen
Recommended for Read October 2021 ★ 1/2 Aka: Science Fiction Written by People Who Watched One Episode of TV Sci-Fi It was on page three when I realized Nguyen and I were going to have differences: “And with no foreign … Continue reading
Dead Space by Kali Wallace
Recommended for fans of character-driven mysteries Read October 2021 ★ ★ ★ 1/2 One sentence review: a character study and mystery with the worst detective ever. “From the first moment we’d stepped off the transport ship and onto Nimue, Sigrah … Continue reading
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