Archive for the ‘Reviews of books’ Category
The Road to Roswell
{4.5/5} “Where was everybody? … You couldn’t go ten miles without running into construction. She should have come across some by now. Unless every single person in New Mexico had been grabbed getting into their cars, forced to drive to the aliens’ flying saucer, and been spirited off to their home planet — and for […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness
{5/5} “And yet, almost a century has passed since the Palami plagues. Their present generation had no part in the disaster. I cannot help wondering if we are compounding their crime by insisting on this harsh curtain of permanent separation.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness by David Brin, published in 2001 Decades ago […]
Usurpation
{4.5/5} “This is one reason why farmers call us lucky bamboo. Their crops grow better in our presence. This is also why you have heard of witchweed but have never seen it. I have a natural revulsion to parasites the same way that humans have an inborn fear of snakes.” Usurpation by Sue Burke, published […]
ST: A Year To The Day That I Saw Myself Die
{4/5} “Without a unifying philosophy, our civilization was trapped in an endless cycle of struggle. Our conflict perpetuated itself for its own sake, just as a flame seeks fuel to sustain its burning. For the survival of our species, Sokor, we must break the cycle — or be consumed by it.” (from “Sundering” by David […]
The Clan Chronicles: Tales From Plexis
{4.5/5} “W’harton paused. ‘I think I parse your meaning. My kin had plans for me, too. But Plexis is a mix of strange and familiar.’ He upped his head back, his rounded tongue licking the last droplets of stew from the bowl. ‘You might find a home there yet.’” (from “The Stars Do Not Dream” […]
Star Trek: SNW — The Scorpius Run
{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]
To Guard Against the Dark
{4.5/5} “AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were ‘entities’ within it, Sira’d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.” To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 […]
The Gate to Futures Past
{4.5/5} “Now we know they didn’t die off. Instead, the Hoveny hid themselves so well other spacefaring species had no idea they still existed or where. And a thousand years later, a new generation sent ships like this to Cersi — and who knows where else — in what I assure you was a very […]
This Gulf of Time and Stars
{4.5/5} “We never should have taken from them… Never ruined their minds and used them. We could have renounced the M’hir and Power; been happy as we were. Greed took us down a path with only one ending. You — were inevitable.” This Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2015 […]
Star Trek: Memory Prime
{4.5/5} “Pathfinder Two enjoyed its communication with those voices, though it found them too slow and too limited to be considered a phenomenon of real intelligence. All of life was a game and the voices accounted for some of the high points, but that was as far as Two was inclined to take matters, unlike […]