In the Vanishers’ palace by Aliette de Bodard
How do people survive after colonisation and enslavement? What happens to a society that has been stamped out when those invaders...
28 October 2018
The future…
Sometimes a wonderful land, sometimes a dystopia. Sometimes in the past, because if the book was written in the 60s but set in the 90s then it is both set in the future and the past, or at least that’s how I sees it, and this is my blog, so that’s the way it is.
Exit strategy by Martha Wells
Murderbot diaries ; 4 I love these books. They just feel so warm and comforting, like a hug, despite the fact...
17 October 2018
Rogue protocol by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries ; book 3 This is another book that I’ve had on preorder ever since I knew it was...
19 August 2018
The Martian obelisk by Linda Nagata
Humanity is dying out. Climate change. Terrorism. Disease. People have accepted that these is no future, just a slow decline and...
16 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
A series of steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
2018 Hugo Award Finalist – Best Novelette Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine #124, January 2017 I really enjoyed this novelette/short story,...
24 June 2018
Questions for a soldier by John Scalzi
Old Man’s War ; 1.5 This is a short read, a question and answer session between John Perry from Old Man’s...
11 June 2018
Artificial condition by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries ; 2 The whole time I was reading this book1 I kept telling myself to slow down. It...
12 May 2018
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
A book in the The Universe of Xuya I do love the idea of ships as people. I really enjoyed Anne...
18 April 2018
This history of bees by Maja Lunde
translated by Diane Oatley Bees are pretty cool insects. They are also pretty damn important. Insects in general are essential to...
2 April 2018
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