Category: Science Fiction
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Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Rosewater by Tade Thompson Rating: 4/5 This was assigned for my local scifi group. I didn’t finish it in time to make it to the discussion, but I really enjoyed the book. It’s a scifi set in about 2050 in Nigeria after aliens have started to invade Earth. The main character, Kaaro, is one of…
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Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Rating: 4/5, good I was really excited to read this book. I’ve seen Annalee Newitz speak a bit in SF and I was a big fan of i09 while that was still running so I was really curious what they would write. They have a lot of experience in tech journalism and it comes to…
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Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Rating: 4/5, good When this was published last year (2018), it took the Twitter world by storm. It seemed like everybody was posting about it, but I didn’t buy it when it first came out because the premise didn’t appeal to me. It’s a scifi novel about some Earthlings…
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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Rating: 5/5, excellent I loved this book. N.K. Jemisin creates a whole world for readers to explore. The way she obscures secrets to build tension and then reveals them at just the right dramatic moment is nothing short of masterful. N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is the first book…
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The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Rating: 5/5, excellent WARNING: This review contains spoilers! This book is a touchstone for me. I read it the first time in middle school, and it really resonated with me. The Invisible Man is a very irritable, impatient, smart person. He reminds me a lot of myself and my…
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We Are Legion – We Are Bob (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis E. Taylor
We Are Legion – We Are Bob (Bobiverse #1) Rating: 3/5, average Oy. Here we go again… another scifi new release that I would never have picked up if it weren’t for our science fiction book club. 😛 The strongest part of the Bobiverse series is the science. The fiction part is a little weak,…
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Infomocracy by Malka Older (Centenal Cycle #1)
Rating: 4/5, good Infomocracy by Malka Older is a political science fiction thriller. It’s about a near-future world where 20 years ago, the peoples of the world split off from traditional countries into small local voting blocks of 100,000 people known as centenals. The people in these centenals vote to choose which global government to…
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Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 #1) by Scott Meyer
2/5, bad We read this in our book club this month and the consensus was that this is a fun, but not very smart, book. I personally didn’t enjoy it very much. I read very slow whether I’m reading something complicated or something simple because I’m used to reading for nuance. There is not a…
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Rating: 4/5 Wonderful! This is a book that appeals to anyone with a heart (in the metaphorical sense). This book is what I always wanted scifi to be, but it never was… aliens who are really alien, but not othered by the narrative.