Impress of the Seventh Surge starts in a very familiar world, as the story centres around a pandemic Continue reading
Category Archives: Science Fiction
Book review: A History of What Comes Next
It’s not really alternative history, but it’s using history to tell another story of the mysterious Kibsu – women with incredible strength and knowledge but who are apparently stranded on earth. Continue reading
Book review: The Hidden Palace
The Hidden Palace is the sequel to the wonderful The Golem and the Djinni, and is itself, utterly delightful. Continue reading
Book review: Activation Degradation
mining system orbiting Jupiter. However, after a battle with ‘aliens’ it is captured and everything it thinks it knows slowly unravels throughout the course of the novel. Continue reading
Book review: A Psalm for the Wild Built
I’m not sure how Becky Chambers does it, but in such a compact little book, she built a world that was at once familiar and very new. Continue reading
Book review: I’m waiting for you
I thought it was a short story collection, but really it was two stories. Continue reading
Book review: A desolation called peace
A Desolation Called Peace is the sequel to the immensely satisfying A Memory Called Empire. How I describe the series to other people is basically diplomatic science fiction. Continue reading
Book review: Axiom’s End
She, through a series of events, ends of the translator to Ampersand, an alien who is looking for a group of aliens who ended up on Earth 40 years previously. Continue reading
Book review: Fugitive Telemetry
The latest instalment in the Murderbot Diaries. Continue reading
Book review: One billion years to the end of the world
Essentially, there are a bunch of scientists who are all either being bribed or threatened, in very different ways, to stop the work they’re doing. Eventually they all get together and are trying to thrash out what could be going on. Is it a super advanced civilisation, is it coincidence, is it something else? Continue reading
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