B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsfriendship / LGBTQIA / Monk & Robot series / non binary / novella / religion / robots / Sci-fi / Science Fiction9 Comments
It’s been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laid down their tools. Centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again. Centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the ... more >
B Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviewsaliens / astronaut / collaborations / First-Person / friendship / joint review / Sci-fi / Scientist / SF / space travel / spaceship / survival / tech15 Comments
Janine: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir’s latest science fiction novel, opens when astronaut Ryland Grace wakes up aboard a spaceship named the Hail Mary with no memory of how he got there. He realizes quickly that his two crewmates died en route (they were all put in comas on the ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / First-Person / futuristic / murder-investigation / robots / Sci-fi / self discovery / The Murderbot Diaries9 Comments
The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Post apocalytpic / Sci-fi / short stories / ThanksgivingNo Comments
BARNEY – She looked forward everyday for him to come by. Then came the one day when he didn’t. GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE – All it took was one missing ingredient to melt the heart of a lonely old man. AN EXPLOSIVE COMBINATION – In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of ... more >
B Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / First-Person / futuristic / robots / Sci-fi / The Murderbot Diaries12 Comments
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsDystopia / futuristic / religion / Sci-fi2 Comments
Note: There are some spoilers in this review. I must be a glutton for punishment to choose this book during a pandemic. But I generally like dystopian stories, and I’ve heard good things about The Parable of the Sower over the years (Janine is a fan, I believe). So, feeling ... more >