For the last 100 pages of this book, I was mainly making incoherent noises at @psythor as all the shit kicked off in the book, with the whole arc of the story winding its way to the end. Most of the incoherent noises were either something along the lines of “omfg they’re so adorable” or … Continue reading
Category Archives: Science Fiction
Book review: The Three-Body Problem
Yay! I read a book! I’m currently neck-deep in PhD writing and so haven’t been reading that much outside of that area. However, this weekend I was going to take a break and read something fun. I bought The Three-Body Problem on a wander through Forbidden Planet not that long ago but still hadn’t read … Continue reading
Book review: Cities and Thrones
Cities and Thrones is the sequel to Carrie’ Patel’s The Buried Life and what a sequel! I’ve recently interviewed Carrie Patel for Science Fiction Double Feature, which will be out later this month. The series is steampunk, mystery, revolution, post-future funtimes. I hope that makes sense. It’s hard to describe as a genre, but it … Continue reading
Book review: Station Eleven
So, I’m going to start off with a slightly annoyed tangent. When in Toronto at the beginning of this month, we went to a bookstore. I was perusing the science fiction novels and decided I wanted something written by a woman. Nothing on the shelf jumped out (there were the usual familiar names) and so … Continue reading
Book review: The Ends of the Earth
The ends of the earth is the smooshing together of two anthologies about the arctic and antarctic. It’s a mixture of both the best fiction and non-fiction stories about these two interesting places. I think I preferred the old journals of the first explorers and the science excerpts more than any of the non-fiction prose. … Continue reading
Book review: Edge of Tomorrow
Or the original title, All you need is kill. So, if you’ve seen the film, this has the same basic premise. Alien invaders, leads to massive war, but killing one weird type of alien puts the main character, Keiji, in a time loop. In the movie, Keiji is of course, played by Tom Cruise. In … Continue reading
Book review: Annihilation (Southern Reach trilogy)
This is a short, creepy and compelling read. Just shy of 200 pages, you follow a woman’s experience in Area X. We only know what the Biologist knows (no one is given a name, only referred to by their titles) and nothing more. We have her theories, distrust and compulsion to go by to figure … Continue reading
Book review: Ancillary Mercy
So this is the third in the series, following Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword and it is as excellent and delightful as the other two in the series. It takes place in the same space station as Ancillary Sword but with a whole host of additional problems (including a showdown with Anaander Mianaai who is … Continue reading
Book review: The causal angel
So. It’s still a bit WTF and I’m still not 100% that I actually understood some of the plot but what a bloody brilliant story. It’s even harder to explain the plot by the third book. Basically, there’s a war and Jean has to rescue Mieli, they each have to steal some stuff, and then … Continue reading
Book review: The fractal prince
I think my comprehension of the plot has fallen from my 75-80% confidence from The Quantum Thief to perhaps only 65-75% in its sequel. Well, not really, I’m experiencing a bit of a peak-end rule cognitive bias. So. Um. Plot. It’s…uh…complicated. I think, basically, they have to steal the original code of a post-human who … Continue reading
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