The Moment by Lawrence M. Schoen
In 2010 “The Moment” was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Short Story category. Over the course of millions of years, a wide range of alien intelligences visit the...
25 January 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #2 Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of...
31 October 2016
The heart goes last by Margaret Atwood
Living in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a...
26 August 2016
Way down dark by James Smythe
The Australia trilogy : book 1 There’s one truth on Australia: You fight or you die. Usually both. Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search...
4 June 2016
A matter of oaths by Helen S. Wright
Available for free from the author’s website : http://www.arkessian.com/ The patrolship Bhattya is looking for a new member of staff, and Rafe appears to be the man for the job. But...
27 February 2016
The red : first light by Linda Nagata
Book 1 in The Red trilogy ; part of my 2016 Sci-Fi experience (review site here) Lieutenant James Shelley never wanted to be a soldier. But life happened, and he made...
21 December 2015
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Part of my 2016 Sci-Fi Experience Book 2 of the Old Man’s War series. In the first book of this series the reader is introduced to the idea of old people...
5 December 2015
The Long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #1 Rosemary Harper is running away from her past. She wants a new life. A new start. So she heads into space, joining the crew of the Wayfarer, a...
15 November 2015
Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen
Book 1 in The Pit Dragon trilogy Austar IV started life as a prison planet, over the generations and years it has evolved into a deeply segregated, almost feudal society. Jakkin...
8 November 2015
Rolling in the deep by Mira Grant
Part of my RIP reading The Imagine Network[ref]think the SyFy network[/ref] has decided to investigate the legend of the mermaid. They’ve recently discovered just how lucrative fictional-documentaries can be. So they...
9 September 2015
If then by Matthew De Abaitua
After the collapse, the Seizure, when the world went to hell, a small village in England was chosen to live under the Process. A whole community run by a computer program....
30 August 2015
The Glad Hosts by Rebecca Campbell
Read the short story online at Lackington’s and then the discussion on metafilter. Mai is a colonist on Shanti, entranced with this alien world and its permanent spring. Although it took...
3 August 2015
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