Far-Seer
{4.5/5} “Some of the moons moved quickly across the sky, others took several tens of nights to cross from horizon to horizon. All went through phases, waxing and waning between the extremes of showing a fulling lit circular shape and appearing as simply a black circle covering the stars. What did it all mean?” Far-Seer […]
Accelerando
{4.5/5} “His ideas are informed by a painfully honest humanism, and everyone — even his enemies — agrees that he is one of the greatest theoreticians of the post-EU era. But his intellectual integrity prevents him from rising to the very top, and his fellow travelers are much ruder about him than his ideological enemies, […]
The Gum Thief
{4.5/5} “I think if human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn’t life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don’t they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of […]
Lady of Mazes
{4.5/5} Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder, published in 2005 Teven Coronal is divided into manifolds, where reality has been constructed according to people’s tastes. In Westerhaven manifold Livia is stunned to receive a visit from one of the founders, who asks her to investigate something that should be impossible in Raven, a next-door manifold. […]
Star Trek: TNG — The Light Fantastic
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Next Generation — The Light Fantastic by Jeffrey Lang, published in 2014 Data has left Starfleet and is living with his daughter Lal on Orion Prime — he inherited a casino there from his father Dr. Soong. Then Lal is kidnapped by someone he never expected to see again — Moriarty. […]
How to fix The Wheel of Time
My friend James has rebooted his blog. On it he’s focusing on 3 things: how to fix some broken pop culture, what he liked this week, and writing tips. Here’s his fix for The Wheel of Time, in which he suggests it be condensed from 14 books to 3: The Wheel of Time Trilogy
Love Minus Eighty
{4.5/5} “Rob reached out to comfort her, then remembered it was forbidden and drew back. If not for the surveillance, Rob would have reached under the silver cover and taken her hand, cold and stiff as it would have been.” Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh, published in 2013 In the future death is not […]
Star Trek: TNG — Immortal Coil
{4.5/5} “You can’t battle life… You have to learn to treat it like a waltz and your problems are your partner. Step lightly, try to keep time with the music and smile.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang, published in 2002 The Enterprise is called to the Daystrom Institute on […]
The Time Ships
{5/5} “Each of us, I thought, could do little to change the course of things — indeed, anything we tried was likely to be so uncontrolled as to inflict more damage than benefit — and yet, conversely, we should not allow the huge panorama about us, the immensity of the Multiplicity of Histories, to overwhelm us. The […]
Star Trek: Heart of the Sun
{3.5/5} Star Trek: Heart of the Sun by Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski, published in 1997 The Enterprise has been travelling to a few far flung planets whose databases fell victim to a virus. The last on the list, Tyrtaeus, proves to be a bit of a chore — the people aren’t particularly welcoming to […]