I mostly read this book while driving down an ice-road! The plot is basically revolution! There’s been a colony on the moon for a relatively long time, enough for several generations to be born on the moon. However, as they are decendents of convicts or new transportees, there’s a limited amount of freedoms and they … Continue reading
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Book review: A Spell for Chameleon
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by Piers Anthony and based on A Spell for Chameleon I don’t think I ever will again. This was the most vile, misogynistic piece of shit disguised as a fantasy novel. It blows Dragonflight out of the water when it comes to the horrible portrayal of women. The … Continue reading
Book review: I am legend
Well, this was a nice quick, disturbing horror romp. So: I am Legend. Vampires take over the world. There’s one dude left. He kind of drifts in and out of going kind of crazy, back to sane, back to despairing, back to hopeful. Then he gets killed. The end. It was tense. It wasn’t a … Continue reading
Book review: Dragonflight
Or how to make a book with dragons in it lame Oh my god. Why is this book on the list. WHY. In the land of subjective evaluation, I deem this book terrible. TERRIBLE. Plot: There’s this place and every so often, what seem to be interstellar spores rain from the sky and would devastate … Continue reading
Book review: The Forever War
So. The Forever War was written in 1974. Wikipedia says it was a reaction to Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and the author’s experiences to the Vietnam War. Fine. So I’m divided about this book because the concept and actual war bits were fantastic. The story follows William Mandella from being conscripted into the military in the … Continue reading
Book review: Childhood’s End
Jeez. I forgot how fucking weird Arthur C. Clarke can be. So Childhood’s End: spaceships with an advanced alien race on board show up on earth, solve all the world’s problems, then after a 100ish years all the children on Earth evolve to join a giant space mind. Then they destory Earth, the end. It … Continue reading
Book review: The Name of the Wind
Or why are fantasy novels so effing long Right this isn’t so much a book review as a book rant. The Name of the Wind follows the story of an ‘arcanist’ in training named Kvothe. He’s the son of a travelling troupe but they get brutally murdered by the Chandrian (Demons? Maybe? Not even sure … Continue reading
Book review: Out of the Silent Planet
So after Dune I wanted something to read that was nice and short. Perusing my Goodreads list and despairing at the 600-1000 page behemouths that were the fantasy books, I decided to go with more sci-fi. So Out of the Silent Planet was written by C. S. Lewis and published in 1938. It was a … Continue reading
Book review: Dune
Or what the hell is up with space empires In a sign of trouble ahead on my reading list, I found something extremely irksome about Dune that I haven’t found problematic before. It’s essentially the idea of massive space empire. I know this also encompasses Star Wars but for some reason (probably that I watched … Continue reading
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