The Road to Roswell
{4.5/5} “Where was everybody? … You couldn’t go ten miles without running into construction. She should have come across some by now. Unless every single person in New Mexico had been grabbed getting into their cars, forced to drive to the aliens’ flying saucer, and been spirited off to their home planet — and for […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness
{5/5} “And yet, almost a century has passed since the Palami plagues. Their present generation had no part in the disaster. I cannot help wondering if we are compounding their crime by insisting on this harsh curtain of permanent separation.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness by David Brin, published in 2001 Decades ago […]
Usurpation
{4.5/5} “This is one reason why farmers call us lucky bamboo. Their crops grow better in our presence. This is also why you have heard of witchweed but have never seen it. I have a natural revulsion to parasites the same way that humans have an inborn fear of snakes.” Usurpation by Sue Burke, published […]
ST: A Year To The Day That I Saw Myself Die
{4/5} “Without a unifying philosophy, our civilization was trapped in an endless cycle of struggle. Our conflict perpetuated itself for its own sake, just as a flame seeks fuel to sustain its burning. For the survival of our species, Sokor, we must break the cycle — or be consumed by it.” (from “Sundering” by David […]
The Clan Chronicles: Tales From Plexis
{4.5/5} “W’harton paused. ‘I think I parse your meaning. My kin had plans for me, too. But Plexis is a mix of strange and familiar.’ He upped his head back, his rounded tongue licking the last droplets of stew from the bowl. ‘You might find a home there yet.’” (from “The Stars Do Not Dream” […]
The Wild Robot
{4.5/5} “A Rozzum always completes its task.” The Wild Robot, released in 2024 When a Rozzum robot wakes up all it wants to do is help people. But there are no people around, only animals. When it gets struck by lightning, it finds raccoons playing with a bunch of its body parts. When it finds […]
The Clan Chronicles
Here are all of Julie E. Czerneda’s books in The Clan Chronicles. If she writes any more, I will read them. The Trade Pact A Thousand Words for Stranger 1997 -> 4.5/5 Ties of Power 1999 -> 4.5/5 To Trade the Stars 2002 -> 4.5/5 Stratification Reap the Wild Wind 2007 -> 4.5/5 Riders of […]
Star Trek: SNW — The Scorpius Run
{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]
To Guard Against the Dark
{4.5/5} “AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were ‘entities’ within it, Sira’d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.” To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 […]
Eclectic lists of SF & fantasy movies
I previously pointed to some lists of SF & fantasy books. Now it’s time for movies. Peter Sykes has a few lists for SF books, TV shows, and movies. He used to have a section for fantasy but it seems it’s gone. Here is the movie list: Top 100 Sci-Fi Films DigitalDreamDoor is a site […]