The Employees
{4.5/5} “After the objects came on board, everyone’s mood has lifted noticeably, but to them it’s something special. To us, the objects are like an artificial postcard from Earth. To them, they’re a postcard from the future.” The Employees: a workplace novel of the twenty-second century by Olga Ravn, published in 2020 Some objects from […]
Star Trek: A Contest of Principles
{4.5/5} “Some of us still remember what Vok did to our world in the Before Time, how they all but destroyed our civilization, forcing us to waste millenia clawing our way back from the wreckage. If not for Vok, we’d be more advanced than your Federation by now, or the Klingons or the Romulans. We […]
The Innkeeper’s Song
{4.5/5} “Most people are wide awake only now and then — on special occasions, as you might say. But a magician is wide awake all the time, on call for everything, which is why post people call him a magician. And he is never more so than at the moment of his own death.” The […]
Shadow of Ashland
{4.5/5} “He was ashamed. He saw what takin’ a man’s job could lead to, saw what he’d done. He’d ended up pitted against other fellows just like himself — guys tryin’ to get by, feed themselves and families. But he was just like them — needed the money.” Shadow of Ashland by Terence M. Green, […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Warchild
{4.5/5} “‘You are asking for a miracle, Vedek Torin,’ Sisko said. ‘The Federation will help as much as possible, but we can’t promise miracles.’ The Vedek inclined his head. ‘When you first came to Bajor, you promised us peace. Is this not the greatest miracle of all?’” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Warchild by […]
Children of Earth and Sky
{5/5} “It could change everything. He needed to paint well, earn respect from the khalif and his court, remember all he saw and heard, come home remembering. Unless the most secret, least likely part of his mission somehow happened. He had already decided he wasn’t going to think about that.” Children of Earth and Sky […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Bloodletter
{4/5} “What Sisko didn’t tell him — and he wasn’t about to, either — was that he’d been prepared to grant the doctor’s request from the beginning. But now, Bashir had learned to fight for what he believed in; now, he was that much closer to being an officer as well as a doctor.” Star […]
The House at Riverton
{4.5/5} “Of course, her mind, as she sat, was not immobile. She looked as though she were trying to solve the conundrum of her life. She longed for independence and adventure, yet she was a prisoner — a comfortable, well-tended prisoner, but a prisoner nonetheless. Independence required money. Her father hadn’t money to give her […]
Signal to Noise
{4.5/5} “Sebastian shook his head. Even when Meche was trying to apologize in her own Meche-way, she had a way of insulting you once again. And yet, looking down at the girl with her oversized green jacket, the sleeves covering her fingers, the collar of her shirt sticking out at an odd angle, he thought […]
Sea of Tranquility
{4.5/5} “Research teams had been working on time travel for decades, both on Earth and in the colonies. In that context, a university for the study of physics with an underground passageway to the police headquarters and countless literal back doors into government made perfect sense. What is time travel if not a security problem?” […]