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 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
The law of becoming by Kate Elliott
The fourth novel of the Jaran The closer I got to the end of this book the slower I found myself reading. I just didn’t want it to end. First of...
25 July 2015
The dazzle of day by Molly Gloss
Dolores Negrete is leaving home, she will be boarding the Dusty Miller along with many other Quakers and leaving the planet, heading for the great unknown of space. Earth is dying....
15 February 2015
Interstellar dir. by Christopher Nolan
Some time in the near future a blight hits earth. At first it hits the wheat and then spreads to other crops. The whole world turns its attention to farming, to...
11 November 2014
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
A Tangled Axon novel : #1 Part of my Diverse Universe reading. Alanna Quick is a sky-surgeon and she loves her job. Repairing spaceships, getting to know their beating hearts, is...
20 September 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy [based on comics] by Andy Lanning, Dan Abnett dir. by James Gunn
Twenty six years after the death of his mother, and twenty six years after he was abducted by aliens, Peter Quill is on the planet Morag, hunting for an orb. Just...
4 August 2014
The Martian by Andy Weir
Mark Watney is a botanist and engineer assigned to the Ares programme, one of the very few who gets to go to Mars. Unfortunately he is stranded there. All alone. With...
26 July 2014
Redshirts by John Scalzi
p>Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience Ensign Dahl has just been assigned to The Intrepid. In many ways this is an honour. The Intrepid is the flagship of the fleet, she...
10 December 2013
Warhorse by Timothy Zahn
For years humans had thought themselves alone in space. But then the Tampies made themselves known. And they, unlike humanity, had the ability to jump through space. Where humans were trapped...
16 May 2013
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