I’ll be the first to admit when I am wrong about something. For the longest time, I avoided The Sun Eater series because of its seemingly derivative nature. I continued my plunge into the series by picking up Demon in White by Christopher Ruocchio. I naively expected that I might buy in at this juncture,…
Continue reading ➞ Demon In White – A Reviewer Goes Down to Vorgossos
For QTL’s first summer book club, I chose a book I had not yet read, because I really wanted to expose the rest of the reviewers (besides Andrew of course) to some harder science fiction. Now, in my opinion, hard science fiction is a pretty loaded term, but I think it does a decent job…
Last year, I took it upon myself to finally read T. H. White’s The Once and Future King. I had been seeing an uptick in Arthurian stories and my only real exposure to the tale have been insane, but lackluster visions from the silver screen like Excalibur (1981) and King Arthur (2004). Since then, while…
My ship continues onward to that farthest star, understanding the generation ship genre. My next stop for the resources that would help me along the journey is Emily Devenport’s Medusa Uploaded. Oichi is flushed out an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. She manages to survive the initial moments through her tenacity and awareness.…
A couple of years ago, a member of QTL gifted me this novel. It had been on my to-read list for a long time, back when I thought a regular, non-scholarly book reviewer could conjure together a deep dive into the various iterations on Frankenstein into an interesting side project. But after years of it…
Ever since The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler has been a writer to watch for me. Like some monster out of the cosmos, he has several eyes looking in several directions at once. His stories often explore the relationships between consciousness, intelligence, governance, and power that call to me like a rock opera composed…
Continue reading ➞ Where The Axe Is Buried – I Think I Lost It
Folks, I went and did it. I finally caved to the unending praise for the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. Back when the first book debuted, we reviewed it and sort of moved on. With the seven novel series coming to a close, I figured now would be a good time to see if…
I had not heard of this book until a few weeks ago when I saw it within a large pile of books sent to us by various publishers. The cover, despite its overpowering simplicity, lured me in. The synopsis highlighting the U.S. losing a war with China was just icing on an already delicious cake.…
Continue reading ➞ Rule of Capture – This Land Was Not Made For You And Me
Horror, science fiction and climate change all feel like ingredients to fill a novel specifically designed for yours truly. The existential dread mixed with surges of terror coated in the sheen of technological achievement is just the kind of story I need in this day and age - I know, psychotic. So when I saw…
A few weeks ago, we engaged in our annual March Madness of books with this year's focus being on neat space ships scattered throughout fiction. Most of the ships we included were in books that we had already read. However, there was one that caught our eye that I had not engaged in. And since…
Continue reading ➞ The Ship Who Sang – Harmonious Discontent
