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The Myth of Rain
Title: The Myth of Rain Author: Seanan McGuire Genre: Science Fiction, dystopia This is the part of my 100 Short Stories in 2015 challenge. Opening sentence: Female spotted owls have a call that...
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Crux
I just finished reading the second book in Ramez Naam’s series Nexus, and it has been months since I have read anything that captivated me in the same way. The first book was really excellent, but I...
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Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
I don’t often read whole single author collections in one go. Actually I rarely finish them. Minatures was an exception. I had a stressful job interview and had on a whim picked up Minatures by Scalzi...
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Motherhood in The Broken Earth series
As part of my Hugo reading this year, I have been reading the first two books of The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin. As the second one, The Obelisk Gate is nominated for a Hugo this year. They...
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The Fifth Season
As part of my Hugo reading this year, I have been reading the first two books of The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin, as the second one, The Obelisk Gate is nominated for a Hugo this year. It is...
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Disability in Science Fiction
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear, a great example of disability done well Thought there are more stories these days with characters with disabilities, they are still a rarity. There can be many reasons for...
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A Matter of Oaths
I don’t often read books that was published before 2000 – much less books from the 1980’s – not because I necessarily dislike reading older works, though they are often so problematic, but because I am...
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All Systems Red
Beautiful cover by Jamie Jones I don’t read novellas in one sitting, especially not 150 pages novellas – well apparently unless they are All Systems Red. The book was fast paced and funny. I have...
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The Planetfall series
Emma Newman makes me cry. Or to be more fair, her writing tends to make me cry, because I get so invested in her characters that I get ALL THE FELLS. The crying to go bad with her Split World series,...
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The Calculating Stars
When Hidden Figures came out in 2016, it changed my view of science in a lot of ways. In my head scientist – especially rocket scientists are men, unless I am told otherwise. Hidden Figures, helped me...
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