Category: Fiction
Overdue — Mark Lawrence
The Book That Broke The World — Mark Lawrence
Returns — Mark Lawrence
Caliban’s War — James S. A. Corey
The second full length novel in “The Expanse” series. And what a novel it is.
The protomolecule has now taken over Venus and while it is now the most watched and analysed thing in the solar system, no one has any idea what is going on beneath Venus’ clouds.
Meanwhile, on Ganymede, a space monster attacks a whole load of UN and Martian marines, and leaves only one alive. Then all hell breaks loose between Earth and Mars and Ganymede gets laid to waste.
And while all this is going on someone is kidnapping children with a rare immune disorder.
And so the stage is set for a super long read.
All our favourite characters from the first series are back, and a few more really good new characters are thrown into the mix.
Super good, great writing, all round awesome sci-fi.
Next up is Gods of Risk.
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Omni Best Science Fiction Two — Anthology
Standalones
All the Perfumes of Araby – 1992 — Lucius Shepard
The Robot and the One You Love – 1988 — Tom Maddox
Chimera Dreams – 1986 — Gregg Keizer
The Pear-Shaped Man – 1987 — George R. R. Martin
Kingdom Come – 1987 — Bruce McAllister
Mother’s Milt – 1992 — Pat Cadigan
Black Velvet – 1992 — Maggie Flinn
One Small Step for Max – 1992 — Dan Simmons
The Cave Painting – 1992 — Garry Kilworth
In the Month of Athyr [Winterlong] – 1992 — Elizabeth Hand
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Leviathan Wakes — James S. A. Corey
After a few little novellas it’s been a joy to get into some real long distance reading: it’s a rather large book!
Great characters, superbly well written, non stop action, excellent dialogue (both internal and external); i really can’t fault this book.
Do remember to have a little break during this to read The Last Flight of the Cassandra.
And now i have the second huge tome, Caliban’s War, to dive straight into.
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The Last Flight of the Cassandra — James S. A. Corey
This story occurs immediately after Holden makes his announcement that the ice hauler was destroyed and a piece of tech with a Mars stamp on it was discovered.
The Cassandra is flying hand to mouth already and they realise that with the coming price fluctuations they won’t be able to continue flying. So they go off to an asteroid in a last attempt at turning a profit: finding something that could change everything for them.
A good little story that i would suggest reading as soon as the Holden announcement goes out, or, you could wait until the end of Leviathon Wakes and read it then.
