Category: science fiction
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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…
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Crystal Line is the third and final book in the Crystal Singer Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. It picks up the story of Killashandra over a hundred years after the events of the previous book. Killashandra and Lars have been a rather productive and prosperous team of cutters for that time even as Killashandra’s memory continues…
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A world filled with dragons. Dragonflight is the first book in The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. It tells the story of the lead up to the ninth pass of thread fall on Pern. It opens in Ruatha hold where Lessa, daughter and heir to the hold, hides from Fax, the man who…
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This book ends a series even as it sets a new stage. Pegasus in Space is the final book in The Talents series by Anne McCaffrey. It picks up not long after the end of the previous book with the building of the Padrugoi Space Station coming to a close. Peter is still working on…
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I am trying out a new author, well new to me at least, with the book In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. It tells the story of a young man named Victor Lawson who lives deep in the forest in a tree house built in a grove of trees. Alongside him are Giovanni…
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Today’s book is Dinosaur Planet, another brilliant story from Anne McCaffrey. It takes place far in the future where mankind is part of a federation of sentient beings. The story revolves around a group of people who are working as explorers for the federation to explore new planets. This particular group of people was one…
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3D printing a human body, I have to admit that it not something that I have come across before. That is however a primary theme in the book Re-printed Matter by Peter Merrens. The book opens just a few decades into our future, at a time when 3D printing has progressed into quantum printing with…
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Crystal singing, A bit of an odd profession and yet it is the primary occupation of the Heptite Guild. In Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey, book two of the Crystal Singer Trilogy, we return to the life of protagonist Killashandra Ree. The book opens with her returning from the crystal ranges hoping to make enough credits…
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This time around I am returning to a series by one of my favorite authors with the book Pegasus In Flight, the second book in The Talents Series by Anne McCaffrey. The first book covered the first two generations of people who started and expanded the institute for people with parapsychic abilities. This book covers…