Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Expanse keeps expanding!

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

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This is the fourth book in The Expanse series, and sees the focus both narrow back to our main crew while also expanding into genuinely new worlds. I have been making my way through both the books and the TV series at the same time, and am now at the point where my reading is how way beyond my TV progress, but it’s ok. In this series, focal character James Holden is a perennial optimist, with noble ideas about humanity and truth and morality. He’s […]

The Expanse just keeps getting bigger

Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

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I had friends recommend The Expanse tv series to me over the years, and I had trouble getting into it based of the first few episodes. I finally tried again last year, used my patience, and was HOOKED. I also read online that the book series was also great; I am generally able to separate and enjoy books from series/movies as two separate things (*cough* Wheel of Time fans *cough*), so decided to give the books a go as well. Abaddon’s Gate is book 4 […]

The hope of space

Arca by Van Jensen, Jesse Lonergan (Illustrator)

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells

Ark (Forward) by Veronica Roth

How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

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I often don’t have time for full epic novels, so often turn to science fiction short stories and graphic novels. They can blow my mind with intriguing premises and characters. Unintentionally I kept turning to space stories that explored future possibilities for humanity. I like how novellas and short stories allow dipping my toes into the works of some heavy hitters of sci-fi. Arca is a graphic novel written by Van Jensen and illustrated by Jesse Lonergan. In this story, we meet teenage workers who […]

Walk the Wire

Mercy of the Gods by James S.A. Corey

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Mercy of the Gods is James S.A. Corey’s follow-up to The Expanse and the first book in the planned trilogy called The Captive’s War. Since Corey’s The Expanse is my favorite sci-fi book series, I think I was primed to enjoy Mercy of the Gods. And, guess what – I did enjoy Mercy of the Gods. A lot. That being said, Mercy isn’t just more of the same. The Expanse jumped genres quite a bit – some books in the series were Westerns, some were […]

Review #4: “Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas”

Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

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Third book in a nine book set, Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey is a “hard science” fiction epic with a popular television show and is widely considered one of the best genre series to come along in a while. I read and enjoyed the first two, so it was an easy decision to spend a few days tackling this one. Straight from the book jacket: “For generations, the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt – was humanity’s great frontier. Until now. […]

Ex uno, multi

Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

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A recap of the saga of nine books and short stories that comprise the Expanse saga: The mankind has spread to our solar system. We have two major players: the weary but still powerful Earth/UN as the Empire that has a sizeable excess population and the Challenger, Mars, brimful of youthful energy (with Texan accent and country music), which it directs to terraforming and building a military society. In-between, in the asteroid belt, the Belters scrape by with their own patois and a Frontier way […]



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