Final Report
{5/5} “I don’t know much about science, but I know this: They didn’t land a spaceship on a comet using anecdotal evidence, and they didn’t calibrate the rate of descent using focus groups.” Final Report by Rick Mercer, published in 2018 This is mostly a collection of Rick Mercer’s rants from his TV show, Rick […]
Star Trek ENT: Patterns of Interference
{4.5/5} “Do we presume we have the right — and the wisdom — to intervene in the lives of other beings we may not fully understand? Or do we default to granting them the same primacy over the lives that we insist upon for our own?” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of the Federation: Patterns […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Live by the Code
{5/5} “Mayweather… tried to imagine wanting the experience he’d undergone inside the Ware, believing it was necessary and just. Would it really be so wrong for someone to free him from that condition, that conviction, over his protests? Would he be better off staying inside? He couldn’t believe that.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Uncertain Logic
{4.5/5} “Peace, tolerance, openness to exchange with other species: These ideas create more opportunities, allow individuals more chances to survive and more options to succeed. Therefore, they have an evolutionary advantage over violence, intolerance, oppression — ideas that tend to destroy lives or restrain their opportunities.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of the Federation: Uncertain […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Tower of Babel
{4.5/5} “The Federation’s strength comes from its unity — its ability to set aside its members’ differences in pursuit of their mutual interests. Our respective syndicates will be better able to stand against them if we learn from their example.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett, […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Becky Chambers Record of a Spaceborn Few Karl Schroeder The Million 2017 Mur Lafferty Six Wakes Kameron Hurley The Stars Are Legion 2016 Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds The Medusa Chronicles […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Matt Haig How to Stop Time 2017 James Alan Gardner All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault 2016 Claire North The Sudden Appearance of Hope Will McIntosh Faller 2015 Claire North Touch […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Runner ups are Matt Haig for How to Stop Time, Mur Lafferty for Six Wakes, David Marusek for Counting Heads, and David A. Goodman for The Autobiography of James T. Kirk. Year Winner […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — A Choice of Futures
{4.5/5} “Reluctantly at first, not without anger… but we talked, and after a while we started to listen. And that paved the way for more of us to be willing to talk, and to listen. And both our peoples began to understand that what we hated each other for was far in the past, no […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — To Brave the Storm
{4.5/5} “Home wasn’t usually far from his mind, but on this day of all days — Valentine’s Day marked not only the fourth anniversary of the successful resolution of the Xindi crisis, but also the passage of three years since his ‘death’ aboard Enterprise — he was particularly aware of the immense gulf that separated […]