Category Archives: Science Fiction

Recommendation: Children of Ruin

Posted on June 2, 2019 by

Last year I recommended Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, a novel about the far future involving a struggle between an interstellar ark of refugees from a dying Earth and an accidental civilization of uplifted spiders over the one terraformed world … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Game of Thrones

Posted on May 24, 2019 by

(Warning: Here be spoilers!) Last week was the series finale for Game of Thrones, a series I’d been watching from the very beginning.  Indeed, I first discovered George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books way back … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: The Nanotech Succession

Posted on May 15, 2019 by

Okay, having already recommended two of Linda Nagata’s books, Vast and Edges, I finally got around to reading the first and second book of her Nanotech Succession series.  (I haven’t read the “zeroeth” book so this recommendation doesn’t include it.) … Continue reading →

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Avengers: Endgame

Posted on April 29, 2019 by

I saw it this weekend.  I will say that it’s an enjoyable and entertaining movie. But it’s something of a logical mess.  I’m not spoiling much by saying that time travel features in the story.  Early in the movie, there’s … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Edges (Inverted Frontier Book 1)

Posted on April 16, 2019 by

A few weeks ago I recommended Linda Nagata’s novel, Vast, the final book of her Nanotech Succession series.  Edges is both a sequel to that book, and the first episode in a new series, Inverted Frontier. As in Vast, this … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse Book 8)

Posted on April 4, 2019 by

Tiamat’s Wrath is the eighth book of The Expanse series.  This is definitely a series you want to read in order, so if you’re just starting, I’d recommend beginning with the first book, Leviathan Wakes. This is the penultimate book … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Vast

Posted on March 29, 2019 by

I have a bad habit of buying ebooks and then letting them sit in my Kindle account unread, sometimes for years.  I’m sorry to say that the book that was in this state the longest was Linda Nagata’s Vast.  I … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: Prador Moon

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

I’ve recommended Neal Asher’s books before.  This one is pretty much cut from the same pattern: superhuman AIs, fearsome aliens, exotic future technologies, and epic space battles covered in detail.  In terms of the chronology of his Polity future universe, … Continue reading →

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Why faster than light travel is inevitably also time travel

Posted on February 3, 2019 by

I’ve always loved space opera, but when I was growing up, as I learned more about science, I discovered that a lot of the tropes in space opera are problematic.  Space operas, to tell adventure stories among the stars, often … Continue reading →

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Recommendation: The Soldier

Posted on January 21, 2019 by

I’ve recommended Neal Asher’s books before.  He writes epic space opera where the stories take place over a vast scale, most of the characters are superhuman or alien entities, and the forces involved are titanic.  That was the motif of … Continue reading →

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