Constellation (season 1)
{4.5/5} “You forget how Earth smells.” Constellation season 1, aired in 2024 Jo is on the International Space Station when something hits it, causing objects to scatter and a fire to break out. They were just starting to run an experiment about a new state of matter, and it was having some success. But with […]
Star Trek: The Rings of Tautee
{4.5/5} “The bridge crew’s expressions were tight, focused. They knew there was a high risk in this rescue operation, especially since there might not be anyone left to rescue. They were willing to take the chance. They trusted Kirk. They always had.” Star Trek: The Rings of Tautee by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn […]
The Murderbot Diaries
Here are all the books in Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series. If she writes more, I will read them. All Systems Red 2017 -> 5/5 Artificial Condition 2018 -> 5/5 Rogue Protocol 2018 -> 5/5 Exit Strategy 2018 -> 5/5 Network Effect 2020 -> 4.5/5 Fugitive Telemetry 2021 -> 4.5/5 System Collapse 2023 -> 4.5/5 […]
System Collapse
{4.5/5} “(For however many corporate standard years, all I got from humans was ‘Run in there no matter how likely you are to get blown to tiny pieces when a quiet tactical approach has a higher percentage of success’ and now it’s ‘Oh no we’re fine, we can hang out in this objectively terrifying immediately […]
Skeleton Crew (season 1)
{4.5/5} “Your home has been purposely hidden from the rest of the galaxy.” Skeleton Crew season 1, aired in 2024-25 Wim misses the bus and tries to take a shortcut to school using the hoverbike but he falls into a ravine — and misses his Assessment test. While he’s trying to climb out he stumbles […]
Fugitive Telemetry
{4.5/5} “It’s usually easy to make friends with low-level bot pilots, but this one had been coded to be adversarial, directed to operated in stealth mode, and was wary of incursion attempts. It tried to alert its onboard SecSystem, but a the old saying (which I just made up) goes, if you can ping the […]
The Acolyte (season 1)
{3.5/5} “A scandal like this would inspire fear and mistrust. We should handle this ourselves.” The Acolyte season 1, aired in 2024 Osha works as a meknek on a Trade Federation ship — she goes outside on the hull to fix problems. She previously trained as a Jedi. Someone matching her description has taken her […]
Foe
{5/5} “Do you want to live mundane lives like everyone else, or do you want to be part of something special and unique?” Foe, released in 2023 Hen and Junior live on a farm that’s been in Junior’s family for generations, but they don’t do any farming. One night a man named Terrance comes by […]
Network Effect
{4.5/5} “If you put everything that had happened to me on a scale of awfulness and assigned exact values to each incident (which I had done once, it’s in my archive somewhere) dealing with corporates who exploited failed colonies, and probably went through SecUnits as fast a Amena did fried vegetable crunchy things, was in […]
The Lazarus Project (season 2)
{4.5/5} “That’s not a ‘don’t worry, everything’s OK’ siren, is it?” The Lazarus Project season 2, aired in 2023 George gave Sarah the serum so now she’s in the loop, and Wes has hired her. George, on the other hand, has been fired — but he’s still trying to help solve the problem. They’re trying […]