I guess I will find out, not today, but later in the year whether or not this book becomes a series for me. This is the same situation that always happens with any kind series, but here we are again. In this small novella (again, I am not so sure why this isn’t just the start of a novel that becomes published later, but novellas are big right now in genre fiction), we have a survey mission commissioned by a corporate entity on a foreign […]
I’m Not a Combat Murderbot, I’m Security
I had a glitch yesterday and lost all my free Tor ebooks off my Kindle. I was in the middle of reading Too Like the Lightning. I frantically went over to the Tor book of the month site to see if I could get it back. I could not, but I could recover this month’s offering, Martha Wells’ All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries. Fortunately, the lovely and amazing teresaelectro was able to help me out with Too Like the Lightning. In the meantime, I had started […]
Princess Leia shows off her skillz.
Razor’s Edge is the first in a loose trilogy of books commissioned in the Star Wars Expanded Universe* designed to let bigger name sci-fi authors play around with the characters in this world, and also to spotlight each of the ‘Big Three’ in their own novels. Each novel can stand on its own, but they all take place in the time between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, after the destruction of the first Death Star. Razor’s Edge is Leia’s novel, and while I thought it […]