…I apparently read a lot of outstanding books over the course of the year and simply could not pick a top ten list! More than twenty of the 56 that Goodreads tells me I read (my goal was 50,) I gave a rating of five stars to. And choosing which ones stayed with me the most between […]
Read More I Tried to List the Top Ten Books I Read in 2016, But…MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: ecological devastation, corporate greed, and a mad scientist’s bioengineered supervirus. This book was my last hurrah for 2016; I’m not […]
Read More Book Review: MaddAddam by Margaret AtwoodAn excellent article on asexual/ace characters in popular and speculative fiction from Tor.com. Article: Five Books Starring Asexual Protagonists from Tor.com
Read More Five Books Featuring Ace ProtagonistsWeb of the Witch World by Andre Norton My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I think I really like Andre Norton. This is only the second book of hers that I’ve read, the second of the classic Witch World series. I really love what she’s done here […]
Read More Book Review: Web of the Witch World by Andre NortonWitch World by Andre Norton My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge (for sci-fi/fantasy books that were nominated for awards but did not win). Anne McCaffrey, C.J. Cherryh, and Andre Norton – the forgotten triumvirate of women who moulded the science […]
Read More Book Review: Witch World by Andre NortonI’m publishing a lot of book reviews I’ve already done if I don’t have anything else to post for the day, until I run out of book reviews worth sharing. (No, I’m not reading this fast. I’m just establishing the flavour of my content because the site is new.) Here’s my review of another one […]
Read More Book Review: Stand on Zanzibar by John BrunnerFool’s War by Sarah Zettel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge and the Space Opera Challenge. The book has received a lot of mixed reviews. I think the big reason why is that no matter what you’re expecting, this book is not what you expect. Is it […]
Read More Book Review: Fool’s War by Sarah ZettelA little more than a year ago I decided that I was going to read an imprint called the SF Masterworks in order of publication, and I formed a book club so that others could join me, share my interest, and discuss the books in question. The imprint was created to circulate classics of the […]
Read More Seven Things I’ve Learned from the Science Fiction Masterworks Book ClubThe purpose of science fiction is, arguably, to make you think and question what it is we’re doing now. The Dispossessed does just that. Source: Book Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Read More Book Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinHello there, friendly readers! I’ve been working on a hard science fiction project for National Novel Writing Month and I’m just about finished. Sometime in early 2017 I will be looking for beta readers to give it a peruse and offer opinions. A beta reader, if you don’t know, reads an unpublished manuscript at some […]
Read More Seeking Beta Readers!
