I have not read much science fiction over the last 50+ years. I do read historical naval fiction (think Horatio Hornblower series or Alexander Kent‘s series). Recently I was told about David Weber’s series featuring Honor Harrington. I was told to expect naval fiction in space. This is the perfect description of On Basilisk Station, the first book …
It was not my plan to get sucked into an 861-page book the past couple of weeks, but when I read the first line of Seveneves—”The moon blew up with no warning and for no apparent reason”—my head was turned, and before I knew it, I was a few hundred pages deep. I hadn’t read …
Winter has arrived. I know the calendar says winter doesn’t begin until December 21, but I’ve never put much stock in that. Our farming season is over, our house is stuffed with storage crops like onions, potatoes, and winter squash, and as I write this, I can look out my window, through the leafless rosebushes …
“The Lunar Chronicles just keep getting better and better. Cress is absolutely AMAZING and is my favorite book of the year. I love Meyer’s use of the switching character perspectives each chapter– and really, her fabulous writing (of course). This is a must read for YA/Fantasy/ Faiy tale/ Post-apocalyptic/books-in-general fans.” –Kaitlyn, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA …
You know what I like? I like a book that I set down thinking “My God, that was a GOOD book!” The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord is a science fiction novel about refugees and relationships that’s hard to explain without resorting to clichés or other SF media. Basically, the home world …
Seattle writer Laurie Frankel won the fifteenth Endeavour Award for her novel Goodbye For Now. The Award was announced Friday evening at Oregon’s major science fiction convention, OryCon. The Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either a novel or a single-author collection, created by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. …
“Speaking of Isaac Asimov, if you think of the Will Smith movie when you hear the title “I, Robot,” you owe it to yourself to read the classic original. Like many of Asimov’s stories—and much of the best of science-fiction—the futuristic setting is just a way of taking a contemporary issue and detaching it just …
