The Grief Of Stones – Witness For Next Month

There is this weird aura around The Grief of Stones. It is being marketed as “Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead…” but I don’t understand why The Goblin Emperor is being brought up when this book has almost nothing to do…

The Black Coast – Right Message, Wrong Words

The Black Coast, by Mike Brooks, is the hardest type of book to read and review. There are a variety of different aspects of this fantasy story that I like greatly, but many of them are hampered by noticeable problems with the writing. The book was compelling enough that I absolutely wanted to finish it,…

Fortuna – It Favors the Bold, Also the Bad (But in a Good Way)

I know it’s not exactly the best way to get excited about a book, but I was immediately attracted to Fortuna, by Kristyn Merbeth, when the eighties synthwave cover was revealed. When Orbit threw in a blurb likening the work to that of Becky Chambers, I was done for. No need to complete the chokehold…

Record Of A Spaceborn Few – A Masterpiece Of Storytelling

No witty title today, just a post about a series that you should be reading. I have talked about Becky Chambers, and her incredible novels, before - but in essence she writes sci-fi slice of life novels. They are quiet, contemplative, and slow stories about people who make their lives in space. The problems that…

Aurora: The Beauty Of Home And The Importance Of Hard Science Fiction

Post by Alex Tas. I have been eagerly awaiting a chance to read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, but since I am already bogged down in so many series, I opted for his 2015 novel, Aurora. It starts at the end of a generational starship’s 170 year journey to the planet Aurora. Told from the…