Network effect by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries #5 I love Murderbot! and all the robot pals. Also don’t be put off by this being the fifth in a series and thinking that sounds like a...
28 May 2020
Sixteenth Watch by Myke Cole
I’ve been meaning to read a Myke Cole book for a while now. His name is one that’s been out there floating around as an interesting author, and I’ve seen a...
30 April 2020
The consuming fire by John Scalzi
The Interdependency #2 You know, I thought I’d reviewed the first book in this series The collapsing Empire last year when I read it, but I can find no trace of...
13 August 2019
Ardulum : first don by J. S. Fields
Ardulum book one I can’t quite remember where or why I picked this book up. I would guess I saw it mentioned on twitter and forgot to tag it so the...
13 July 2019
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 that the narrator describes themselves as a murderbot and there...
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 coming out. I loved the first two Murderbot books, The...
19 August 2018
Record of a spaceborn few by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; book 3 I really loved the other book by Chambers that I’ve read. They were just wonderful. So of course I had this on pre-order and started reading it...
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 then they’ll be no more. The colonies on Mars have...
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 database the inhabitants of a generation ship have prioritised a...
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 it serves has a huge list of to-do activities and...
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 of that wider world as it is a prequel. So...
10 July 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 War and a some citizens of New Goa, one of...
11 June 2018
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