[amazon_link id=”0804139024″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Martian Author : Andy Weir Genre : Sci-fi Publisher : Crown (Random House) Pages: 385 Publish Date : February 11th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 5/5 From the book blurb : Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men […]
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Book Review : The Martian by Andy Weir
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Posted in 2014, 5_star_rating, arc, books, crown publishing, humor, must read, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, sci-fi |
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Book Review : Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, fun stuff, imaginative, must read, Orbit Books, recommended, romance, sci-fi, series, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0316221112″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Fortune’s Pawn (Paradox #1) Author : Rachel Aaron Genre : Sci-Fi Publisher : Orbit Books Publish Date : November 5th 2013 Pages : 368 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 The main protagonist in this book is Paradoxian mercenary Devianna Morris. Devi is no ordinary merc – […]
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[amazon_link id=”0316098078″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Shaman Author : Kim Stanley Robinson Genre : Sci-fi/Anthropological Publisher : Orbit Publish date : September 3, 2013 Pages : 464 Source : Publisher/Netgalley Rating : 3.5/5 Loon is a young adolescent of the Wolf tribe in Ice Age times. We meet him as a young orphan, being […]
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[amazon_link id=”0345537122″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Darwin Elevator Author : Jason M. Hough Genre : Sci-fi Publisher : Del Rey Pages : 496 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 In the first novel of a trilogy, Hough builds a futuristic, dystopian 23rd century world. Skyler Lukien is a space-age scavenger, setting off […]
Read the rest of this entry »Best Books of 2012
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Posted in 2012, books, culture and society, dystopian, imaginative, lists, lovely things, mini-review, must read, mystery, recommended, sci-fi |
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I read a bunch of books in 2012, but here are three of the best: [amazon_link id=”0812982940″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker : You’d think that sci-fi and coming-of-age genres wouldn’t mix very well, but they do. The book is based on a scientific phenomena – the shifting of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book review : The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
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[amazon_link id=”0345534050″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Best of All Possible Worlds Author : Karen Lord Genre : Science Fiction/ Romance Publisher : Del Rey Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Pages : 320 Rating : 3.5/5 Karen Lord’s new sci-fi novel is set in the future when humans have colonized new planets. When the planet […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
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Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2012, arc, books, crime, ebooks, imaginative, mystery, netgalley, new books, review, sci-fi, tor |
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[amazon_link id=”034552666X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Great North Road Author : Peter F. Hamilton Genre : Sci-fi, Mystery Publisher : Tor Pages : 1089 Source : Netgalley/ Publisher ARC Rating : 2.5/5 Before I requested this book on NetGalley I did a quick net lookup on Peter Hamilton – I hadn’t read him before. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Bowl of Heaven
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[amazon_link id=”0765328410″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Bowl of Heaven Author : Gregory Benford and Larry Niven Genre : Science fiction Publisher : Tor Pages : 416 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 2.5/5 A human spaceship, the SunSeeker, on it’s journey to a planet called Glory, comes across a strange object – a large […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Earth Unaware
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, recommended, review, sci-fi, series, tor |
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[amazon_link id=”0765329042″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Earth Unawares Author : Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston Genre : Sci-fi Pages : 368 Publisher : Tor Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow are two of my favorite sci-fi books. Although I haven’t been able to move further into the series […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Age of Miracles
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Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, arc, dystopian, must read, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, sci-fi |
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[amazon_link id=”0812992970″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Age of Miracles Author : Karen Thompson Walker Genre : Dystopian/Sci-fi Publisher : Random House Pages : 289 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Lately I’ve been reading books which I would normally have not read – you think the book is of a particular genre […]
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