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 too much. Also being so short they often don’t have...
14 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
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, call it what you will. It takes an interesting idea,...
24 June 2018
The language of power by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman series ; 4 If you haven’t read the previous books in the series then this is not the place to start. Go back to book one and follow Rowan...
23 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 War and a some citizens of New Goa, one of...
11 June 2018
Solo : a star wars story dir. by Ron Howard
The marketing and hype around Solo: a star wars story is remarkable for its absence. I barely saw a trailer for it. Spotted very few posters, if any, outside the cinema....
26 May 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 is short, only 159 pages2 so I knew that soon...
12 May 2018
The lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
I added this book to my TBR pile way back in 2016 when the author talked about pitting his character against Rand from the Wheel of Time series. Usually I’m not...
3 May 2018
Avengers : Infinity War dir. by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Given the box office takings I’m guessing you’ve already seen this film. I mean, hasn’t everyone? But nevertheless there shall be no spoilers here, because you just never know do you…...
29 April 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 McCaffrey’s The Ship Who series way back in the way...
18 April 2018
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