Category: Sci-fi

Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight — Aliette de Bodard

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Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight -- Aliette de Bodard

The Universe of Xuya

For reading order please see Aliette’s main page.

The Jaguar House, in Shadow – 2010
The Shipmaker – 2010
Scattered Along the River of Heaven – 2012
Immersion – 2012
The Waiting Stars – 2013
Memorials – 2014
The Breath of War – 2014
The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile – 2014
Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight – 2014
A Salvaging of Ghosts – 2016
Pearl – 2016

Standalones

The Dust Queen – 2014
Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness – 2019

Dominion of the Fallen

Children of Thorns, Children of Water – 2017

Aliette’s Page

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Mission Critical — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Mission Critical -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2019.

Standalones

This is Not The Way Home — Greg Egan
Rescue Party — Aliette de Bodard
Devil in the Dust — Linda Nagata
Hanging Gardens — Gregory Feeley
The One Who Was There — John Barnes
By the Warmth of their Calculus — Tobias S. Buckell
Mutata Superesse — Jason Fischer & Sean Williams
The Empty Gun — Yoon Ha Lee
Genesong — Peter F. Hamilton
Something in the Air — Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lost in Splendour — John Meaney
The Agreement — Dominica Phetteplace
The Fires of Prometheus — Allen M. Steele
Ice Breakers — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Cyclopterus — Peter Watts

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All Systems Red — Martha Wells

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All Systems Red -- Martha WellsBefore you begin this, do read Compulsory to get a quick introduction to our main protagonist, Murderbot.

All Systems Red finds Murderbot hired out to a planetary survey team who really don’t seem to be needing much looking after, after all, there’s no dangerous fauna or flora on this planet and all the members of the survey team are all nice and friendly.   So Murderbot spends most of his time downloading and watching all its favourite TV shows, that is until suddenly things start going very wrong and life threatening to the survey team he is supposed to be protecting.

On top of this, the survey team also find out that Murderbot has hacked its control unit and is, and never has been, under their control.

While only 1352 Kindle loc points long, this novella really packs it in and is just lots of that non-stop story telling from the get-go.   There’s a reason this book has so many accolades:

Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2018 Alex Award
Winner: 2018 Locus Award
One of the Verge’s Best Books of 2017
A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

Super good and now it’s straight into Artificial Condition, for more Murderbot adventures.

Martha’s Page

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