Category: science fiction
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C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy ends with That Hideous Strength, the only book in the series that does not take place in space. It follows the story of Mark and Jane Studdock, a young and newly married couple. Jane is feeling restricted by married life as she struggles to finish her own schooling when she…
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Run Away To Mars by Michelle Webster is a rather interesting story. Audrid Riley is a scientist and military officer working on Mars who has just celebrated her first anniversary with her husband Torias. Her current project is investigating a rather unusual cave near the base. During an initial exploration of the cave her protective…
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Empery is the third and final book in The Trigon Disunity series by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It picks up quite some time after the previous book Enigma and focuses on the aftermath of Merritt Thackery and his discovery of the Mizari sterilizer. The new galactic Empire is continuing its expansion even as certain members of…
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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…