Science fiction 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 13 years). Best of the best Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks Navigator by Stephen Baxter The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter Existence by David Brin […]
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 13 years). Best of the best Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin The Quicksilver Court by Melissa Caruso Early Riser by Jasper Fforde Replay by Ken Grimwood How to Stop Time by Matt […]
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 […]
Star Trek
Here’s an update to this list. The Original Series Spock Must Die! by James Blish 1970 -> 2/5 The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre 1981 -> 4.5/5 Yesterday’s Son by A. C. Crispin 1983 -> 4.5/5 The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane 1983 -> 4/5 The Final Reflection by John M. Ford 1984 -> […]
Best tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2024 Greg Cox TOS: Lost to Eternity Dayton Ward TNG: Pliable Truths 2023 Derek Tyler Attico The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko John Jackson Miller SNW: The High Country Dayton Ward DISCO: Somewhere to Belong 2022 […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t read any science fiction novels published in 2024 yet. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 Annalee Newitz The Terraformers Sue Burke Dual Memory Mur Lafferty Chaos Terminal Ann Leckie Translation State Robert J. Sawyer […]
Best fantasy novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t yet read any fantasy novels published in 2024. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 Travis Baldree Bookshops & Bonedust James Morrow Behold the Ape 2022 Naomi Novik The Golden Enclaves Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes Robert Jackson Bennett […]
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 […]
Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter
{4.5/5} “But helmsman… steering the ship… looking straight ahead and seeing the stars clustered in front of you… that’s what I was really going out there for, Ling. For the stars. To go out there and lose myself in them.” Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter by Peter David, published in 1995 Captain John Harriman aboard […]