Star Trek: Foul Deeds Will Rise
{4/5} Star Trek: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox, published in 2014 The Enterprise is summoned to a system where two planets, Pavak and Oyolo, have been at war and are attempting to make peace. An ambassador is aboard to help broker a treaty — that ambassador is Kevin Riley. When Kirk is on […]
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
{4.5/5} Serenity: Leaves on the Wind by Zack Whedon et al, published in 2014 Zoe’s baby is fine but she’s not fine and needs a hospital. Of course, soon after they get there the Alliance shows up to grab Mal and everyone else. Mal reluctantly leaves Zoe, promising to rescue her later. But he knows […]
The Congress
{4/5} “When did they ever ask you? You were always their puppet. All of them, the producers, the directors, they told you what to do. They told you how to behave, how to act, how to smile, how to love and they gave you the subtext for every crappy line they churned out and when […]
Hunters of Dune
{4.5/5} Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, published in 2006 Murbella is now in charge of both the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres, but there are some rogue Honored Matres who haven’t accepted her rule. Meanwhile a no-ship carrying Duncan, Miles, Sheeana, and seven sandworms has disappeared into another universe. […]
Chapterhouse: Dune
{4.5/5} “Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!” Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert, published […]
Predestination
{5/5} “What if I could put him in front of you? The man that ruined your life. If I could guarantee that you’d get away with it, would you kill him?” Predestination, released in 2014 A temporal agent poses as a bartender. After hearing an amazing story from a woman who became a man, he […]
Heretics of Dune
{4.5/5} “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.” Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1984 Fifteen hundred years after Leto II, the Tyrant, there are two […]
I Origins
{4.5/5} “When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. So my atoms have known your atoms […]
Planet of the Apes: The Utopians
{4.5/5} Planet of the Apes: The Long War by Daryl Gregory & Carlos Magno, published in 2011 Planet of the Apes: The Devil’s Pawn by Daryl Gregory & Carlos Magno, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: Children of Fire by Daryl Gregory & Carlos Magno, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: The Half […]
God Emperor of Dune
{4.5/5} “I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.” God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1981 […]