When Mae arrives on her first day of work at The Circle, the world’s largest internet company, she is immediately engulfed and welcomed on campus, dazzled by the constant events and built-in social life. As the reader and a geek, I too was dazzled. All the perks of working for the mega-rich people-friendly companies were trotted out: the concerts and groups, encouraged individuality, free lunches and malleable schedules, all wrapped in a shiny high-tech bow. The gloss quickly loses it’s glamour when the social opportunities […]
A Splendid Time Travel Tale (Or, Connie Willis Deserves All of Her Awards)
Kivrin, a historian and student at Oxford in 2054, plans a trip to the Middle Ages using the well-established technology of “the net.” She must do extensive research in order to blend in with the locals. The history department’s technicians must perform complex calculations to get her to the right location. Her instructors carefully set up a rendezvous to bring her back. No one has ever traveled to the fourteenth century before. Kivrin’s favorite professor, Mr. Dunworthy, is deeply worried for her. However, Kivrin has […]
I Pledge Allegiants
The now standard (twice is a standard, right?) disclaimer applies: as this is review of the third book in a trilogy, I’ll probably be talking about the first two. “Divergent is the next big thing in YA fiction!” they told me. “Go read something with another kickass female protagonist once you’re done with The Hunger Games! ” they encouraged. Let’s face it, even from the beginning this was just Veronica Roth smashing The Giver into the sorting hat and calling the resulting mess a trilogy. In Divergent, we’re introduced to […]
Ender’s No Good Very Bad Life
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
I have had “Ender’s Game” on my to read list for a while but was a little on the fence because I didn’t really want to spend money on it because of Card’s politics. Lucky for me, my awesome Pajiba gift exchange friend bought it for me, thus I could read it, with no qualms. 🙂 In a world where another attack from an alien race is imminent, children are selected for training to leave their families and prepare for the battle as the ultimate […]
“Star Trek: The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms”: Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #14
by Dayton Ward, 2014 This is the fifth and final novel in the Star Trek: The Fall Series. After the mind-, heart-, and spirit-breaking “Phoenix” novels, I decided I needed to take a break from early Star Trek novel writing. Also, I received this in the mail and I cannot resist either packages or new books. Geoffrey on Goodreads writes, “To a large degree, it … feels like the conclusion of a major story arc that began with the final Borg invasion of the Federation, […]
Killer robots + mental asylum on the moon + nasty divorce = drama
After two chapters, I decided I wasn
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