Fandom for robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Published in Uncanny Magazine, Sept/Oct 2017. Issue 17. Short stories often don’t really work for me. Either too little happens or...
14 July 2018
City of stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
I don’t think I would have picked this book up at all if it hadn’t been nominated for a Hugo this...
13 July 2018
The cloud roads by Martha Wells
The Books of the Raksura ; 1 So after reading the wonderful murderbot books1 I wanted to read more by Wells....
11 July 2018
Small changes over long periods of time by K. M. Sparza
First published by Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in May 2017. Finley has just been bitten by a...
10 July 2018
Wind will rove by Sarah Pinkster
Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine September/October 2017 – read it online Ever since the “blackout” when a virus attacked their...
10 July 2018
The secret life of bots by Suzanne Palmer
Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine #132, September 2017 Bot 9 has just been activated after a long time offline. The Ship...
10 July 2018
Extracurricular Activities by Yoon Ha Lee
The Machinaries of Empire Although this novelette is part of the larger Machinaries ‘verse, you can read it without any knowledge...
10 July 2018
Children of thorns, children of water by Aliette de Bodard
Dominion of the fallen ; 1.5 Thuan and Kim Cuc and attempting go gain entrance to House Hawthorn. Every year the...
9 July 2018
Masterminds of the right by Emily O'Reilly
This is a short but fascinating book. Written in 1992 it details the growth of hard-line right-wing religious individuals and organisations...
9 July 2018
June 2018 round-up post
I am now up to 30 books written by women, and 13 by men. The vast majority of the books I’ve...
4 July 2018
Jane, the fox, and me by Fanny Britt
Translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou Oh, this is a beautiful book. The art work is just lovely, I love...
29 June 2018
The turkeyfeather riders by Louis L'Amour
A collection of five short stories by the classic western author Louis L’Amour. And by classic I mean the idealised version...
26 June 2018