Category: science fiction
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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…
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2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Arthur C. Clarke and based on the movie of the same name. It opens back in the stone age with some unusual rocks randomly appearing all over Earth and training or teaching early humans tools and tricks to help them progress. Eventually the mysterious rocks disappear as fast…
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Shards of Earth is the first book in The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It tells the story of Idris Tellemier, a man who is also something known as an intermediary. The intermediaries were a group of humans that were experimented on to gain extrasensory powers fifty years previous to help fight a war…
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Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is the first book in The Mars Trilogy. It opens with a celebration that is all about the progress being made to turn Mars into an actual habitable planet. The celebration quickly goes downhill when one of the original settlers is attacked and killed. It then jumps back to…
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is the first book in the Fractal Verse by Christopher Paolini. It tells the story of Kira Navarez, a young exobiologist who is working on a survey mission on a supposedly uncolonized planet. When she stumbles upon an unknown alien relic things start getting difficult though. The rest…
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If you ever want to read a book that makes you question reality than Devil in the Pale Moonlight by D. Hollis Anderson might just fit the bill. It tells the story of Tomahawk O’Murtaugh, a young man living in a futuristic Texas, after they have seceded from the United States. He works as a…
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Time to revisit the futuristic dinosaurs with Dinosaur Planet Survivors by Anne Mccaffrey. It is the sequel to Dinosaur Planet and opens with Kai being woken up from cold sleep by the thek Tor an unknown amount of time after the events of the first book. The thek immediately starts investigating the mystery of the…
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Out of the Silent Planet is the first book in C. S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy. It opens with a random man, Dr. Ransom, walking through a neighborhood and looking for a place to stay. He meets a young woman who says that he might be able to stay with her neighbors and if he does…
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Emprise is the first book in the Trigon Disunity by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It tells the story of an alternate earth, an earth where something caused a near-catastrophic collapse in the mid-twentieth century. A few decades after the collapse a former astronomer in the United States hears an unusual signal coming from deep space. After…
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Have you ever read a book and just ended up seriously confused? This doesn’t typically happen for me but with Terratron – Gods of Mars by Nathaniel Bernadau that did. The book opens with humanity contemplating ways to colonize space which leads to the creation of semi-sentient self-replicating terraforming robots. This leads to the formation…