Fields of Gold  by Liu Cixin ★★★★★★ "Are the stars very far?" "They’re getting closer."  Six stars.  Jaw droppingly good...

The Covenant is getting ready to launch and fulfill mankind’s promise of colonizing the stars.     Who wouldn’t want that?    

Laika’s Ghost by Karl Schroeder ★★★★½   When an American finds evidence of a Russian pyramid on Mars he is hunted down by Google and other g...

Oh this was bad. The way it was marketed I expected Interstellar , with a dash of 2010 , and enough romance to bring me to tears. It was non...

Firstborn by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★★★  Yes, six stars.    With shades of Ender’s Game  and Gemini Man  this was the best science fiction sh...

Un-for-gett-able.   A new millennium foundation work of solarpunk and afrofuturism.    It’s hard to believe this has not been snapped up and...

Girl In Wave: Wave In Girl by Kathleen Ann Goonan ★★★★★   “Unlike earlier children, we have a new power. With the invisible power of litera...

Drift shrugged. “I’ve made a career out of never quite being killed by everything around me going wrong.”   Plenty went wrong. 

"Buckle up, everyone. Jia’s taking us down ahead of schedule, and incidentally has lost her fucking mind." "I heard that....

Reread - This is exactly what the day needed, some kraken fun. Merfolk May is Kraken Awesome!

Exactly as advertised! Hot intergalactic hetero prison sex smut with an HEA; on the food pyramid this would be a doughnut.

"I didn’t know how realistic a picture they had of their future. Their lack of a future, that is." 

“I was naked before God and I was raped."   I'm trying to remember a book that traumatized me this much and failing.

An Afrofuture tale of personal first contact, war, heritage, and understanding.

From A Stone by Eric Choi ★★★★★   “It is information. An… an artifact of the mind.”  Hard SciFi! What an unexpected treat!  Government scie...

Are you tired of aliens that look like Bob-your-neighbor with pointy ears or some other negligible difference?   Are you tired of predictabl...

“If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that ...

"If you want justice you will have to claw it from them."  

“The fact that it was he who in the end had underestimated the Starflyer gave his situation its wretched poignancy.”  

Welcome to the future. Old age, true death, and lack of space are things of the past. Wormholes have given us new worlds, peace, and prosper...