Skyfall by Catherine Asaro
From the back cover: Skyfall goes back to the beginning, to the rebirth of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on...
View ArticleNebula Project: The Sixties in Review
J: So from 1965 to 1970 is a short decade, but there was a tie in there, so it was actually 7 books. And the first thing I notice about them right off is that they’re all science fiction. Various kinds...
View ArticleNebula Project: A Time of Changes
What follows is a spoiler laden discussion of the book A Time of Changes. Beware if you’re worried about such things. When a man from Earth introduces prince-in-exile Kinnal Darival a telepathic drug...
View ArticleNebula Project: The Gods Themselves
What follows is a spoiler laden discussion of the book The Gods Themselves. Beware if you’re worried about such things. In the late 21st century, humans were contacted by beings from another universe....
View ArticleNebula Project: Rendezvous with Rama
The Nebula Project returns from hiatus with a guest panelist (K’s husband Bob, able to, among other things, provide a male perspective) and a discussion of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. In...
View ArticleJ’s Take on Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Let me start with a description of the book, for some context. Ellie and her friends live in a smallish town with a large rural area, so that she and a lot of her friends are ranchers. At least I think...
View ArticleJ’s Take on The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner
I’m going to venture into spoilers for The Tomorrow Code, but I’ll try to do this chronologically, so the big spoilers won’t come until near the middle or end of this review. I’ll warn you when we get...
View ArticleNebula Project: Forever War, part 2
What follows is a spoiler laden discussion of the book Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Beware if you’re worried about such things. This is part two of our discussion on the Nebula Award winner Forever...
View ArticleNebula Project: Man Plus
What follows is a spoiler laden discussion of the book Man Plus by Frederik Pohl. Beware if you’re worried about such things. Facing mutual self-destruction, the major governmental powers on Earth race...
View ArticleJ’s Take on Deepwater Black by Ken Catran
I read this book slowly over the course of what was probably months. It turned out to be the perfect book for picking up and putting down. The plot wasn’t hard to follow and the characters weren’t so...
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