In this novel, we keep following Mia, and now her daughter Lola. The space race element of it centres around the journey of Voyager 1 and 2, the years passing as the small probes get built and then make their grand tour through the solar system. Continue reading
Beryl herself is a complicated character. There was a chapter at the beginning that discussed makes the most elite of elite athletes. Not just people who win once, but those who are constantly at the top of their field for years. There’s an element of early life trauma, but also just being driven to the detriment of everything else. Continue reading
The Cage of Dark Hours is the sequel to the fantastic The Helm of Midnight. Both several of the main characters from that book take centre stage again in this one – namely Thibaut (casual thief, male companion and sometime spy) and Krona, now captain of the Regulators (the magical police force.) Continue reading
Every 50 years or so, the Witch descends upon the town of Blumwald to take a companion. Mina, the lonely daughter of the duke, impulsively volunteers after years of being forgotten in her own home. Continue reading
Mindwalker takes place at some unspecified time in the future, after some sort of cataclysmic event that has resulted in depopulation and irradiated zones Continue reading
The memoir of the lead singer of Bad Religion. Continue reading
Our intrepid crew is pretty broken at the start of the novel. Guil and Olympe are captured and imprisoned by the evil Duc, Camille is slowly wasting away, but at least with James and Al. And poor Ada is all alone, playing double agent as a protegé to the Duc and his dastardly plans to turn Olympe into a weapon. Continue reading
How to be a Liberal chronicles how liberal thought developed, and how liberal thinkers responded to challenges in the past right up to today. Continue reading
The plot centres around Olivia, an orphan when we encounter her, with only the journal of her mother to keep her company. Olivia can’t talk and is a bit of an outcast in the orphanage Continue reading
In broad strokes, there has been first contact, and two humans have ended up on Station Eternity, with the rest of the inhabitants of the sentient space station being various alien races. The central conceit is that Mallory, the main character, has many murders just happen around her and then she invariably solves them Continue reading
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