Fantasy novels
Here’s an update to this list. It only includes books I reviewed on my blog (ie. ones I’ve read in the last 11 years). Best of the best Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin Early Riser by Jasper Fforde Replay by Ken Grimwood How to Stop Time by Matt Haig The Midnight Library by Matt […]
Comic books & graphic novels
Here’s an update to this list. Best of the best Hyperbole and a Half – Allie Brosh Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller Battlestar Galactica: Complete Omnibus V.1 – Greg Pak Serenity: No Power in the ‘Verse – Chris Roberson Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka Volume 3 – Greg Rucka The Amazing Spider-man […]
Star Trek
Here’s an update to this list. The Original Series I don’t read all of these but I do pick up the ones that are written by authors I know or look particularly interesting. I’ve also reread a few of the best older ones. Spock Must Die! by James Blish 1970 -> 2/5 The Entropy Effect […]
Best tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2021 David Mack ST: Coda — Oblivion’s Gate Christopher L. Bennett TOS: Living Memory Una McCormack The Autobiography of Mr. Spock Cassandra Rose Clarke TNG: Shadows Have Offended Una McCormack DISCO: Wonderlands James […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2022 Mur Lafferty Station Eternity Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility John Scalzi The Kaiju Preservation Society 2021 Sue Burke Immunity Index Becky Chambers The Galaxy, and the Ground Within Andy Weir Project Hail Mary […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2022 Robert Jackson Bennett Lockland 2021 Claire North Notes from the Burning Age 2020 Matt Haig The Midnight Library Robert Jackson Bennett Shorefall V. E. Schwab The Invisible Life of Addie […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. This past year was an outstanding one for new authors. The big winner is Annalee Newitz for The Future of Another Timeline. Runner ups include Andy Weir for Project Hail Mary, Brandon Sanderson for Elantris, Matt Ruff for Lovecraft County, and Alix E. Harrow for The Ten Thousand Doors […]
Station Eternity
{4.5/5} “Anira had spied Mallory’s bookshelf full of her own Charlette Queen mysteries. Anira had asked lots of questions and figured out pretty quickly that Mallory was both the author and the subject of the books. She didn’t believe that they were true stories, of course. No one ever did until it was proven. And […]
Early Riser
{5/5} “Mother Fallopia gave a speech. It was the same old Fat Thursday stuff we’d heard before, many times: about how we must all embrace the virtues of gluttony and sloth as we headed towards the Winter, and to remember those who had not survived hibernation last year through not being diligent about their weight, […]
DS9 Millennium: Inferno
{4.5/5} “He ran aft again, remembering the time-honored truism every Starfleet officer he had known had insisted on quoting: Whoever controls engineering controls the ship. Chief O’Brien called it Scott’s first law.” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Millennium: Inferno by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published in 2000 The two wormholes have merged, and outside […]