Towers Fall
{4.5/5} “Towers sometimes lost great chunks of themselves to offensive spells, or in failed hostile takeovers. Such wounds caused the Towers pain, hindered their movements and damaged their systems; bad wounds could take years to heal. She though, too, of what Xhea had said when she first discovered the living Lower City’s presence: that it […]
Hunted
{4.5/5} “I stepped on a Balrog when it was in a dispersal phase — actively looking for a new host. Now, it’s happily bonded to me and reproductively dormant. Entirely. Almost. It would only spread to someone else if the chance was too promising to pass up: a host so superior, the Balrog had to […]
Defiant
{4.5/5} “I don’t want to die, she thought, and realized it was true. Not that she could stop it; but perhaps she could die standing. Perhaps she could look that death in the face — not just shake and shiver until the darkness came over her and swept her away. She could die like a […]
Arrested Development (season 3)
{5/5} “Has anyone in this family ever seen a chicken?” Arrested Development season 3, aired in 2005-06 Most people think George Sr. is in prison but it’s really his twin brother Oscar. Michael is not sure whether his father is innocent or guilty. He fires his lawyer and hires a new one named Bob Loblaw. […]
Radiant
{4.5/5} “‘Towers need Radiants. They’re born rarely, and are never allowed to change their citizenship. But the human body isn’t designed to hold that much energy. So much life force… the magic kills them in the end.’ To Shai he added, ‘That’s what happened you, yes?’” Radiant by Karina Sumner-Smith, published in 2014 Unlike everybody […]
Heaven’s River
{4.5/5} “Don’t ask me, Bob. Replicant drift seems to be accelerating. I think we’re approaching fifteen to twenty generations, and it’s no longer just a matter of enhanced or suppressed attributes of Original Bob. The differences are accumulating, and some clones are going in completely new directions.” Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor, published in […]
Arrested Development (season 2)
{5/5} “I’ve made a huge mistake.” Arrested Development season 2, aired in 2004-05 Michael was attempting to leave his family and move to Phoenix. But he runs into Barry, his lawyer, who tells him he can’t leave the state because he’s about to be indicted. Gob accidentally found information at the office that shows their […]
Star Trek: Living Memory
{4.5/5} “The Federation isn’t perfect. We’re better than most, but we only got that way because of past generations of protestors who pushed for a better world. And we do backslide now and then — our leaders get complacent and lazy and need a kick in the pants to remind them what we stand for.” […]
Star Trek: The Higher Frontier
{4.5/5} “Seems to me that you can’t learn that much from someone who’s already like you. That might just be why we’re out here exploring strange new worlds instead of ordinary old ones.” Star Trek: The Higher Frontier by Christopher L. Bennett, published in 2020 When many Aenar are killed on Andoria by unknown attackers, […]
Notes from the Burning Age
{5/5} “The kakuy do not care for the payers of man. They are not interested in our good or bad, our desires or whims. We pay them our respects, not because they will smell the incense or taste the wine, but to remind ourselves of the needfulness of this pact. Everything changes; the balance is […]