Category: Sci-fi
Supernova — C. Gockel
Carbide Tipped Pens — Anthology
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Standalones
The Blue Afternoon that Lasted Forever — Daniel H. Wilson
A Slow Unfurling of Truth — Aliette de Bodard
Thunderwell — Doug Beason
The Circle — Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu)
Old Timer’s Game — Ben Bova
The Snows of Yesteryear — Jean-Louis Trudel
Skin Deep — Leah Petersen & Gabrielle Harbowy
Lady with Fox — Gregory Benford
Habilis — Howard Hendrix
The Play’s the Thing – 2013 — Jack McDevitt
Every Hill Ends with Sky — Robert Reed
She Just Looks that Way — Eric Choi
“SIREN of Titan — David DeGraff
The Yoke of Inauspicious Stars — Kate Story
Ambiguous Nature — Carl Frederick
The Mandelbrot Bet — Dirk Strasser
Recollection — Nancy Fulda
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Untold — AJ Eversley
Carbon — AJ Eversley
Savior — AJ Eversley
Watcher — AJ Eversley
Direct Descent — Frank Herbert
The first non-Dune book of Frank’s that i ever read. And what did i think?
It ain’t Dune, that’s for sure. But, then, what is?
But it could have been better written. It just all seems rushed to fit into a 100page novella kind of thing when it could have been written really well as a full length trilogy.
The Earth has become humanity’s library, the place where all the knowledge of human history is kept for anyone in the galaxy wishing to access it, it’s like a galactic wide Wikipedia and then some.
And all Frank could think to do is to write a novella sized rushed thing out about it? Disappointing: not because it’s bad, but because it could have been so much more.
