Furious Heaven, by Kate Elliott, is everything I wanted from a sequel and more. It is a brutal marathon of space conquest, populated by fun and deep characters that burn brighter than a blade in the forge. The worldbuilding is top-notch and just gorgeous to steep in. If you read my Unconquerable Sun review, expect…
Continue reading ➞ Furious Heaven – It’s All About Intergalactic Family
The Free People’s Village, by Sim Kern, is fun, sad, and uncomfortable in equal measure. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and at times it comes off as preachy, but I could not pry my eyes away from it. Al Gore has won the 2000 election and declared war on Climate Change. Initiatives introduced…
Continue reading ➞ The Free People’s Village – No Place I’d Rather Be
I’m going to try and restrain my strong desire to be nitpicky with this book. I’m coming hot off of finishing it, and let’s just say I very much disliked this novel. I haven’t read Mammay’s previous work, constantly putting it off for one reason or another. But I am like a smaller celestial body…
Continue reading ➞ Generation Ship – Intergenerational Drama, Or The Lack Thereof
Dr. Tamsin Rivers has a problem—several in fact. The city of San Siroco is sinking, and her team can’t figure out why. It’s also happening in her basement, causing the walls to pull down and the stairs to stretch. It isn’t long before a door appears, a door that can’t be opened, at least until…
Continue reading ➞ The Last To Leave The Room – Reflective Horror
It’s your first day on the job. The building has a familiar feeling to it, despite its incongruity. Your co-workers defer to you on all matters, though you are completely new to the scene. A crisis has erupted, and though everyone seems to know what they are doing, you are the last puzzle piece that…
Continue reading ➞ There Is No Antimemetics Division – You Never Read This Review
I’ve only recently begun to dabble in the world of comics, graphic novels, and manga. I’ve dipped my toe in a few times in the past, never fully committing to anything other than a few issues or volumes of the weirder stuff. My only real exposure to graphic novels prior to 2016 was Watchmen, a…
Continue reading ➞ East of West – Have You Heard The Message?
A war has just ended. The Emperor of the Holy Vaalbaran Empire surrendered to the Ominirish Republic after the death of their daughter. Enitan, a scribe from the imperial territory of Koriko, is hoping to grow her own tea business when disaster strikes. Her sibling is abducted by Vaalbaran forces, and her lover, the Vaalbaran…
Continue reading ➞ The Splinter In The Sky – Stuck In My Craw
The Phoenix is eleven years into its journey to Planet X, a planet deemed habitable for human life. A bomb goes off, killing three members of the crew, including its captain. Asuka is the lone surviving witness, and in some folks’ eyes, the prime suspect. She was the last picked for the 80 person mission,…
So called “Artificial Intelligence” has begun to worm its way into our tech oriented daily life. With numerous puff pieces about the powers of ChatGPT and other deep language models, it’s hard to escape the anxiety and hype surrounding the supposed untapped potential it could bring to our worlds, and the ways it could “redefine”…
It’s going to be a long summer full of novels with the word sky in them. It won’t be long before you see reviews of The Deep Sky and The Splinter in the Sky from yours truly. Though I would be lying if I said I weren’t excited by the prospect of reading each and…
Continue reading ➞ The Surviving Sky – Falling With Impeccable Style
