Orson Scott Card wrote Ender in Exile eleventh out of the twelve books in the Enderverse (so far), but it actually falls between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, and runs alongside the events of most of the Shadow Series. Card says he wrote it to fill in the gaps between the war ending on Eros, and Ender becoming the Speaker that we see in Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. However, it seemed more to me like Card had a list of all the endings he needed […]
Books I Read With My Kid
So my kid has been getting into Star Wars lately. We’ve been working our way through the movies, of course. And then there’s the Scholastic book sales at the school, every other month or so. And they had the boxed set of the junior novelizations of all six movies. Can’t think of anything that would make a seven-year-old boy more excited to read. We’re reading them together, but I’m doing most of it, so I claim that I can claim these books as fully read […]
A space opera that’s more concerned with the little people than the space or the opera.
Oh, man. This series. This book!!!! WHAT. Ancillary Mercy is probably my favorite of the series so far. The first book might overtake it on re-read, just because I’m a sucker for finely structured stories, and Breq’s revenge journey cum search for identity alternated with flashbacks to her time as Justice of Toren was very, very satisfying (you know, once you figured out what the hell was going on). The second book was Breq beginning to come into her own, win people over to her […]
The Dark Side of the Moon
NASA announces a historic lottery to help fund their new lunar expedition. Teens of between the ages 14 to 18 can sign up, and three lucky someones will be selected to train with the astronauts and come along on for a trip to the Moon. There is already a moon base they can stay at, DARLAH 2, established in the early 1970s for research and observation, but never actually used, for reasons the higher ups with the right security clearance would prefer not to answer. […]
On “Significance,” Asimov’s Zeroth Law, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Book 3 of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series, featuring corpse soldier (ancillary) Breq, sort-of/kind-of/not completely concludes the tale of Breq’s quest for justice. In Book 1, Leckie sets up her Radch Empire and Breq’s background — how she went from being the artificial intelligence of an imperial ship, serving her captain and able to see and know all through her ancillaries, to being an isolated and separate individual with the formidable strength of an ancillary and a powerful desire for revenge. In Book 2, the […]
Let’s just wait here a while, see what happens.
Who Goes There? is the basis for both the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World and the much more faithful adaptation, 1982’s John Carpenter’s The Thing, (the less said about the 2011 remake/prequel the better). The novella was published in 1938 and tells the story of American men stationed at Big Magnet research station in Antarctica. While investigating a magnetic anomaly the team discovers an alien ship and a frozen body. They bring the body back to their camp and after some discussion decide […]
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