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AI with Feelings

May 6, 2016 by Debcapsfan 1 Comment

4.5 stars My goal this Cannonball is to read a bunch of sci-fi fantasy and books in general not written by white dudes. I saw that Ancillary Justice had won many awards including the Hugo and Nebula awards. It was also highly recommended by NPR Books. It tells the story of Breq, formerly the Justice of Torren, a ship that is part of the Radch Empire. The ship is controlled by a sentient AI with physical bodies called ancillaries. The story alternates between the present […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: sci-fi, space opera

Debcapsfan's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: sci-fi, space opera ·
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Highly Entertaining Space Opera

March 11, 2016 by melanir 2 Comments

I was not expecting to like Leviathan Wakes as much as I did. I picked it up because I liked The Expanse on Scy-Fy and needed to know what happened next, but I picked it up thinking it’d be a slog through overly detailed hard sci-fi and I wasn’t really looking forward to the slog. But it is an extremely enjoyable read and I found myself fully immersed and engaged in the world that James S.A. Corey has created. If you watched The Expanse, then […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: james s.a. corey, space opera

melanir's CBR8 Review No:17 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: james s.a. corey, space opera ·
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A disappointing novelization.

March 3, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

I waited for this book on hold at my library for two and half months. It wasn’t worth it. At the same time, I’m glad I didn’t give in to my initial impulse to buy it. That would have been a huge waste of $20. Unfortunately, Alan Dean Foster manages to take a great story and make it more pondering, less exciting, and inserts a level of cheese into the dialogue with his added and extended scenes (and even in some cases, changed lines) that […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Alan Dean Foster, movie novelization, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, star wars, The Force Awakens

narfna's CBR8 Review No:37 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Alan Dean Foster, movie novelization, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, star wars, The Force Awakens ·
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A flawed but still wonderful series ender.

January 20, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

So this shit right here is exactly why I read science fiction. It’s got EVERYTHING YOU COULD POSSIBLY WANT. Well, these last two books have been lacking the humor of the first two, mostly because the foul-mouthed poet Martin Silenus was relegated to a background role, but he was there a little bit at the beginning of the last book and the beginning and end of this one, so there was a little bit of humor there. But seriously EVERYTHING ELSE is here. You’ve got […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: dan simmons, hyperion cantos, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera, the rise of endymion

narfna's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: dan simmons, hyperion cantos, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera, the rise of endymion ·
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A surprisingly great entry into the new Star Wars canon. Would rec for even non-Star Wars fans if you like YA/sci-fi/romance.

December 14, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

So, this book basically came out of nowhere, right? I only heard about it a couple of months ago thanks to some Goodreads friends, all of whom were also completely surprised by how good this book was. (Granted, I think a lot of them don’t regularly read YA and might be unaware of some of the wonderful authors currently working in the genre.) But still. Even with all of those reviews, the book still managed to surprise me. Because what’s so surprising about it isn’t that […]

Filed Under: Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: claudia gray, journey to the force awakens, lost stars, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, star wars, Young Adult

narfna's CBR7 Review No:198 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: claudia gray, journey to the force awakens, lost stars, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, star wars, Young Adult ·
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The Expanse novellas aren’t just a money grab.

December 13, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

The Churn “To go from an unregistered birth such as his to having any power and status at all was an achievement as profound as it was invisible.” Before he was the engineer on the Rocinante, Amos Burton lived in Baltimore. A product of prostitution himself, he spent his childhood in sexual slavery, before being rescued by the woman who would essentially become his step-mother. This novella takes place about twenty years before the main events of the series, during a time when the organized […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Science Fiction Tagged With: gods of risk, james s.a. corey, jefferson mays, narfna, novellas, science fiction, space opera, the butcher of anderson station, the churn, the expanse, the vital abyss

narfna's CBR7 Review No:197 · Genres: Audiobooks, Science Fiction · Tags: gods of risk, james s.a. corey, jefferson mays, narfna, novellas, science fiction, space opera, the butcher of anderson station, the churn, the expanse, the vital abyss ·
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