Summary: This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, … Continue reading Book Review: In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker #20BooksofSummer
Category: Science Fiction
Book Review: Crosstalk by Connie Willis
Summary: In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. And Briddey Flannigan is delighted when her boyfriend, Trent, suggests undergoing the operation prior to a marriage proposal - to enjoy better emotional connection and a perfect relationship with complete communication and understanding. But things … Continue reading Book Review: Crosstalk by Connie Willis
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Terminally Ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Half Life by Lillian Clark
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. There aren't enough hours in the day for Lucille--perfectionist, overachiever--to do everything she has to do, and there certainly aren't enough hours … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Half Life by Lillian Clark
Book Review: Blindsight by Peter Watts
Summary: It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien … Continue reading Book Review: Blindsight by Peter Watts
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Network Effect by Martha Wells
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Network Effect by Martha Wells
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Otaku by Chris Kluwe
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Ditchtown. A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Otaku by Chris Kluwe
Book Series Review: Off the Grid by Alyssa Cole
Something a little different today, I'm going to be reviewing this entire trilogy of science fiction romance novels -- Off The Grid by Alyssa Cole. This series is set in modern times and the first book, Radio Silence, starts out a couple of months after the electricity goes out. No one seems to know what's … Continue reading Book Series Review: Off the Grid by Alyssa Cole
Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star Moira has created a new identity to finally escape her past—until her domineering father launches a sweeping public search … Continue reading Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Book Review: Dark Age by Pierce Brown
Summary: For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who … Continue reading Book Review: Dark Age by Pierce Brown
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