I should really know better than to choose books just because they’re on sale, but The Plagiarist lured me with the $2 audiobook price tag. Lesson learned. Whatever you do, don’t listen to the audiobook version of this story. The narrator was so incredibly annoying that it couldn’t help factoring into my enjoyment of the book. The Plagiarist is a novella about Adam Griffey. He’s a plagiarist, but not in the traditional sense of the word. He teaches English by day and at night he […]
My Kind of Mashup
This was my first Scalzi, but not my last. I’ll definitely be checking out more of his work after this. Lock In was an unbelievably fun and inventive read with some fascinating themes. The novel takes place in a future United States where 1.7 million people suffering from Haden’s Syndrome are “locked in.” They are mentally spry and fully aware, but their bodies can’t move or respond. The scientific community responded to this issue by creating new technologies to help locked in people. The first […]
Fifties Pulp Science Fiction by the Masters
Isaac Asimov’s Wonderful World of Science Fiction – Intergalactic Empires, Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenburg, and Charles G. Waugh (1983) “We have nine stories by nine authors illustrating nine different versions of Galactic Imperial history…” Isaac Asimov Although this anthology was published in the eighties, it contains stories from the science fiction masters of the fifties. Some of them are dated, but most of them are simply well-written, exciting tales of man against the universe. Chalice of Death by Robert Silverberg – Earth […]
Engaged but not Engrossed
So…I don’t know if I wanted to enjoy this book or not. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up if it weren’t for Ancillary Sword being part of this year’s Hugo nominations, and because I don’t like reading/watching sequels without first having read/watched the, well, first in the series.
One of the less interesting “episodes”, really
As this is book 26 in the In Death series (and probably somewhere in the mid-thirties in terms of Eve and Roarke stories if you count novellas as well), I shouldn’t have to tell you that it might be best if you start at the beginning, with Naked in Death. Although since these books play pretty much like a any murder of the week procedural on telly, and none of them tend to require you to jump in a the beginning, you’ll be able to […]
Now this is what I call Sci-Fi
I am so far behind on reviewing that I’ve started to forget what I’ve read, although I recall a three day Courtney Milan marathon so Malin and Mrs Julien will be happy when I get round to reviewing them. First though, the best SF novel I’ve read since Anathem. Mark Watney is one sixth of the third manned mission to Mars, and it turns out that third time is not, in fact, the charm: during evacuation six days into the mission, he is left […]
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