Category: science fiction

  • Review of “A Princess of Mars”

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    We are going back to classic science fiction with this next book, A Princess of Mars which is book one in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Carter has retired from fighting after the Civil War and is now working on mining when he is chased by local natives. He ends up cornered…

  • Review of “Artemis”

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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…

  • Review of “Enigma”

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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…

  • Review of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

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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…

  • Review of “Shards of Earth”

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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…

  • Review of “Red Mars”

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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…

  • Review of “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars”

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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…

  • Review of “Devil in the Pale Moonlight”

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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…

  • Review of “Dinosaur Planet Survivors”

    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…

  • Review of “Out of the Silent Planet”

    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…