My main complaint about this book is that it’s too short. At about 350 pages, it could easily have been twice as long and still remained fascinating. “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.” Jason Dessen, a college professor, and his artist […]
“I have seen the future baby, it is murder”
I read this book as part of the book club I run for fans of the My Favorite Murder podcast. This was our non-fiction selection for the month of January. Some people who started reading the book before me complained that book jumping around in time made for a confusing read. Perhaps the advance warning helped because I did not find the time jumps confusing at all. I was also concerned that the premise of a time traveling serial killer would wind up being silly […]
Thought-provoking and … kind of freaky
I purchased Story of Your Life and Others after I saw Arrival in theaters, which rocked me to my core, and I wanted to see just how it translated from the page to the screen. The answer? Very differently. For one, Chiang is a lot more technical in his descriptions, and I really appreciate the sparse-ness of his language. He does not use wordy descriptions to manipulate emotions out of his readers; he simply lets the readers draw the parallels between the science-y concepts he talking about […]
Close encounters
Zack Lightman is busy daydreaming in class when a spaceship appears outside the window. It is a spaceship that looks exactly like the ones in his favourite video game. Is he losing his mind or is something else at play here? Are aliens really making contact with us? And what does his long-dead father have to do with it all? Armada is Ernest Cline’s second book after Ready Player One, the critically acclaimed novel that’s currently being made into a film. Like in RPO, Cline […]
Commander Uhura to the Rescue
Firestorm by L.A. Graf (1994) The author L.A. Graf is really the housename for three writers: Julia Ecklar, Karen Rose Cercone, and Melissa Crandell. Their group name stands for Let’s All Get Rich and Famous which is clever enough in itself. They primarily focus on Star Trek pro-novels and are the few Star Trek novels I keep on my reread shelf. I always enjoy them. Primarily, because the trio focus on the secondary Star Trek characters of Uhura, Sulu, and Checkov. Full disclosure here: I […]
Finding Mrs. Right
Downtiming the Night Side by Jack L. Chalker (1985) As a longtime hard science fiction reader, I’ve always liked Jack Chalker books, especially his Well of Souls series. He’s a space opera kind of guy, and a reader can splash easily into one of his books. However, Downtiming is something completely different. Time travel books are by nature convoluted and this is probably one of the most convoluted time travel tales you’re ever going to read. Poor Ronald Moosic is having a really bad first […]
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