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52% complete! Alex has read 13 of 25 books.
No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was …
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.
Destry's life …
It was dark and a little depressing, but with a good end.
From the back cover:
"In The Peace War Vernor Vinge introduced the technology of bobbles, creating spheres where time stands …
First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to …
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon is an extensively researched book chronicling the first half-century …
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. …
Sometimes it felt like a Cold war story complete with the capitalistic Good Guys, the mind ruling Bad Guys and the hint of mutually assured destruction or whatever. Then for the space twist: throw in some sentient spiders, weird astronomy and some trully brutal characters that makes you sick (without having to go into gory details, Vinge sure knows how to make a story pretty fucking dark) and you got an emotionally tough story on the cover.
Despite this, I was deeply hooked like never before! Usually there's some side story that makes you groan and cause a little struggle with a book, but here I was completely engulfed in each and every page, every side story engaging and contributing to the overall story. I've never had this strong engagement with a book before and I can't really articulate why. I guess my mind and mood was in a winter …
Sometimes it felt like a Cold war story complete with the capitalistic Good Guys, the mind ruling Bad Guys and the hint of mutually assured destruction or whatever. Then for the space twist: throw in some sentient spiders, weird astronomy and some trully brutal characters that makes you sick (without having to go into gory details, Vinge sure knows how to make a story pretty fucking dark) and you got an emotionally tough story on the cover.
Despite this, I was deeply hooked like never before! Usually there's some side story that makes you groan and cause a little struggle with a book, but here I was completely engulfed in each and every page, every side story engaging and contributing to the overall story. I've never had this strong engagement with a book before and I can't really articulate why. I guess my mind and mood was in a winter state that fitted well with this kind of book at this time?
Anyway, I loved following the technological progression of the spiders, learning of the "legendary origins" of the Cheng Ho traders was interesting and I hated the sadistic Emergents. Thumbs up.
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. …
So high, so low, so many things to know.
Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable …
This book was a lot better than the previous, where the "protagonist" just kept messing around and picking fights. The guy is still an ass and the banter is still fun too, but now there was actually a story with a purpose, complete with a heroic journey and self sacrifices. Even the aliens got a lot more character and a justified purpose.
I also appreciated how the overall tone was less depressing, with less brooding about death and failed colonies. There's still some of that left of course but things are finally starting to look better for this little colony!
This anthology of Finnish fantasy edited by Desirina Boskovich features fiction from Carita Forsgren, Mari …
This was a great smörgåsbord of stories in one book, mixing fantasy, scifi, horror and more. One thing the stories had in common was an emphasis on nature, one way or another and in various degrees, with hints of the Finnish culture, giving an overall nice and cosy feeling. I also had to look up more works from some of the authors.
However, I put away the book without finishing the last story as I can't stand streams of consciousness or whatever you call it.
Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable …
It's a weird and grotesque idea. And the book itself was a bit dark and depressing, especially the antagonist, but I still enjoyed the story. There's some "fun" scenes, like playing rock-paper-scissors above the black hole of death or the clones having a sex party, where you end up thinking; what the fuck?
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits …
The book is heavy with technobabble that's quite dated by now, as others have already mentioned. I didn't even manage to read through the first story before having to give up. Sad, as it looked like this book got some interesting ideas.
Might give it a new go in the future if I find the patience to handle the crazy.
Reads initially like the sort of traditional science fiction you might see on TV - rocket lands on foreign planet, …
The Kalevala (Finnish: Kalevala, IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and …