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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death …
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael …
(Full disclosure I went to high school with Paz) This was a fun alternate-history noir!
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So …
Did the audiobook. Very fun!
A pretty good synthesis with a kind of confusing conclusion. (I read an advance review copy so maybe this was changed later, not sure.)
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Fun and provocative, but this felt like it should have been a trilogy and unfortunately got squished into a single volume. Kim Stanley Robinson blurbed this and is thanked in the acknowledgments, so I don't feel totally dismissive of Newitz's efforts when noting that the influence of the Mars Trilogy is pretty apparent in this epic planetary narrative. But Newitz only gets like 350 pages to create their centuries-spanning world, compared to KSR's set of tomes, and it at times I felt a little rushed along. I wanted to have more time with some of the characters and the political economy.
I love that one of the central characters is a sentient organic flying train though, that's great. Also minor spoiler, the train fucks!
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family …
Pretty good although I found the tech dystopia part a little simplistic and I kind of wanted more detail on Rao's apparent brilliance to make the meteoric rise seem less fable-ish--e.g. we're told he's really good at writing code and making new programming languages but we don't really get any insight into what coding is like for him or what's unique about his languages. If the idea is that he's kind of a Steve Jobs-ian charlatan who isn't actually that good at stuff and the lesson is the happenstance of capitalism, would also like more evidence to support that framing!
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying …
For school. Really informative and fucked up!
Roberto Bolaño’s Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in …
I wasn't expecting to be so taken by this but I read it in a few hours and really enjoyed it!
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly …
I love Prince Hat!!
“You are the next step in human evolution.”
At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if …
Content warning mild spoilers but also I didn't like it so who cares
Turns out I just really don't like "what if normal person became Advanced Person" stories! Honestly was hoping for a heel turn moment where we realized the hero had actually lost his grip on reality but...nope he's just the Most Special Boy now, big whoop
"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."
Esther is …
Just a nice little gay Western
The main reason I am doing this audiobook is it is also narrated by Harlan Ellison, never had strong HG Wells opinions prior to this. Let's see what the fuss is about!
