Category: science fiction
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We return to Mars with Green Mars, book two of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Picking up about fifty years after the end of the previous book it opens with Nirgal, a young man who is a descendant of several of the first hundred and who is constantly pushing himself forward. As he…
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Eternal OS: Love Never Fails by Rezvan Hatami is about Eliora who has just been hired by Corporatio to help oversee the development of their new android, Eternalus. As Eternalus continues developing and evolving she interacts more and more with Eliora and with Edward, a somewhat reclusive engineer assigned to the project. The more Eliora…
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Armada x Drive by J. D. Peel was an interesting read. It tells the story of four childhood friends: Armada, Freya, Frien, and Flint. Having reached adulthood they each work on adjusting to their new assigned positions. Armada and Freya have become soldiers who work in sync to fight back against the machina while Flint…
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The Nexus Protocol by Sven Rodrigues-Wagner is a weird mix of AI, virtual reality and nanotechnology all in one story. It tells of an AI known as Aegis Nexus and how it was developed to control the nanotechnology used for healthcare purposes and how it started developing in ways harmful to humanity but was unnoticed…
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Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini is the second novel set in his fractalverse and is the prequel to the novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. It tells the story of Alex Mercer and the crew of the Adamura. In 2234 the Adamura discovers an anomaly on Talos VII, a planet that is supposedly…
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The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. It is an intriguing mix of science fiction and fantasy that ended up being hilarious. The story opens with a man waking up in an unknown location with absolutely no memory. In fact the only thing he seems to have is fragments of a…
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Perelandra is the second book in the Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis and it continues the story of Ransom. It opens with Lewis traveling to visit Ransom only to arrive and find Ransom preparing to leave. He has received word that he is to travel to the world known as Perelandra, what we call…
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Andy Weir has created an extremely compelling story in his novel Artemis. It tells the story of Jasmine Bashara, a young woman trying to make a living in the one and only lunar colony Artemis. Jazz is a part-time porter and full-time smuggler who is just trying to get rich. Not rich rich but rich…
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Enigma is the second book in the Trigon Disunity trilogy by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It jumps forward a little in time from the previous book as it starts with humanity having made contact with several colonies after the discovery of other humans in space that occurred at the end of the previous book. The story…