Are you feeling hopeless at the prospect of 2018? Boy do I have the book for you. In childhood’s end the world is ruled by “overlords,” who clean up the world and end wars and bring peace to mankind – ain’t it swell? There can’t possibly be a caveat – – oh wait there is? [redacted for spoilers] Nevermind then. Right, so read this book, because at least we humans, as a species, are still kinda autonomous? “Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could […]
Sci-fi to make you cry (in a nice way)
Lovelace is an AI. She belongs on a ship, protecting and caring for its crew. But due to events in Becky Chambers’ first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, she finds herself instead in a synthetic body. To everyone else she looks perfectly human, but inside she’s struggling with her new circumstances, missing her old abilities, and feeling lost. Her guide through this transition is Pepper, an expert in all things tech, and someone who knows what it’s like not to be […]
Hard to get into at first but then packs a whammy at the end.
I actually pre-ordered this and had it downloaded on release day, but never got around to reading it. Turns out there was no rush, it wasn’t the best work I’ve read by these authors, but I did end up seeing the point of it by the end. I finally got around to it because I’m about to start book seven in this series (!) when I finish my current audiobook, and I wanted to have this read by then. For almost all of this novella […]
Fun space caper
Artemis is the second published novel of Andy Weir, of The Martian fame. The book is titled after the city Artemis, the only city on the Moon in the near future. With about 2,000 residents Artemis is tiny and mostly dependent on its tourism industry. People save up for trips to the Moon to be able to experience lunar gravity and see the historic site of the Apollo 11 landing. Artemis is brought to life by it’s narrator, Jasmine (Jazz) Bashara, Saudi born but raised on the Moon […]