“You’re stalling, ART-drone said. I am not. I can stand here and be useless without any ulterior motives, thanks.” Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s … Continue reading System Collapse by Martha Wells
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Iron Prince by Bryce O’Connor and Luke Chmilenko
“Did you think you were going to drift through life on talent and hard work? Get up. You’re hardly a failure. You only get to think that of yourself when you stop trying to win.” Reidon Ward will become a god. He doesn't know it yet, of course. Reidon was born weak, sickly and small. … Continue reading Iron Prince by Bryce O’Connor and Luke Chmilenko
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
“How much worse to think yourself wise, and still be as ignorant as one who knew themselves a fool?” Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she … Continue reading Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
“The whole audacious, ridiculous plan of his had worked out in every particular, save that he had failed to adjust for the destructive stupidity of the rest of humanity.” Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their … Continue reading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
“If there had been some tiny bead present in the brain of all humans, that had told each other, They are like you; that had drawn some thin silk thread of empathy, person to person, in a planet-wide net – what might then have happened? Would there have been the same wars, massacres, persecutions and … Continue reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
“I drifted just outside, contemplating the dark interior.” This book was so close to being really good! I picked it up because it was suggested to me as a creepy sci-fi story and for the most part that is what it delivered. I just felt that it fell short in a couple of area that … Continue reading Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
The Shadow Library 