Science fiction novels
Here’s an update to this list. It still only includes books I reviewed on my blog (ie. ones I’ve read in the last 10 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 […]
SF & fantasy TV shows
Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 3rd Rock from the Sun 5 5 5 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 5 5 4.86 Angel 5 5 5 5 5 5 Babylon 5 4.5 […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an update to this list. I didn’t watch as many movies as usual in 2021 so there are not too many additions to this list. Hopefully I will catch up soon on some that I missed. Year Winner Runner Ups 2021 The Mitchells vs. the Machines 2020 Palm Springs Bill & Ted Face […]
Best tie-in novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2021 Christopher L. Bennett TOS: Living Memory Cassandra Rose Clarke TNG: Shadows Have Offended 2020 Una McCormack PICARD: The Last Best Hope Christopher L. Bennett TOS: The Higher Frontier Kirsten Beyer VOY: To Lose the Earth […]
Best science fiction novels by year
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2021 Becky Chambers The Galaxy, and the Ground Within 2020 Adrian Tchaikovsky The Doors of Eden Marina J. Lostetter Noumenon Ultra Robert J. Sawyer The Oppenheimer Alternative John Scalzi The Last Emperox […]
Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. I read a bunch of new authors this year. The big winner is Cixin Liu for The Three-Body Problem and its sequels. Runner ups are Dave Duncan for West of January, Melissa Caruso for The Tethered Mage and its sequels, Cory Doctorow for Down and Out in the Magic […]
The Silent City
{4.5/5} “‘The cities are a relic of the past.’ The program has said it over and over. ‘A buried past, Elisa, a disastrous past. The humans now living don’t need them. They have the right to live their own lives, to decide their own fate. Some legacies can be crushing.’” The Silent City by Elisabeth […]
The Child Garden
{4.5/5} “Milena sat on the bus in her boiled gloves and saw a nervous light in the eyes of the actors, a fervour for accomplishments completed in youth. She saw the unfailing smiles of people in the markets, and the smiles seemed to be symptoms of disease. It seemed to Milena that nearly everything she […]
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
{4.5/5} “I knew what he was doing, distracting me with one of our old fights, but I couldn’t resist the bait, and as I marshaled my arguments, it actually helped calm me down some. Dan was that kind of friend, a person who knew you better than you knew yourself. ‘So you’re saying that if […]
Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 2)
{5/5} “Half the time when you see someone with the wrong amount of pips around here it’s usually just delicious street corn.” Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, aired in 2021 Mariner and the captain, her mother, are getting a bit tired of working so closely together. Tendi thinks Rutherford has a problem in his […]