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December 24, 2021

REVIEW: Safety Protocols for Human Holidays by Angel Martinez

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsaliens / Christmas / f/f romance / Hanukkah / holiday novella / Kwanzaa / LGBTQIA+ / novella / POC / Sci-fi / SF romance / Solstice / space travel2 Comments

Someone has to fix their broken human. Raskli’s not sure why it has to be her. As a security officer on an interspecies ship, Growlan Raskli’s experienced in heading off species-specific aberrant behaviors in order to keep the peace. But when her captain asks her to find out what’s bothering ... more >

May 7, 2021

JOINT REVIEW: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

JanineB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviewsaliens / astronaut / collaborations / First-Person / friendship / joint review / Sci-fi / Scientist / SF / space travel / spaceship / survival / tech17 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 >

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January 7, 2020

What Janine is reading: SFF read in 2019

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbeing true to oneself / biracial heroine / clones / diversity / epistolary / flashbacks / genre-bender / hidden identity / LGBTQIA+ / murder mystery / necromancer / POC / portal fantasy / queer / Reading lists / romantic-elements / Science Fiction / space travel / story-within-a-story / sword fighter / YA science fiction6 Comments

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty A spaceship crew of six clones wake up in a cloning vat missing twenty-five years of memories. Of their much older previous incarnations, five are dead and one is comatose. Additionally, the spaceship has changed course. It quickly becomes apparent that one of the clones ... more >

April 4, 2018

REVIEW: Rocket Men by Robert Kurson

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsastronaut / NASA / non-fiction / space flight / space travel7 Comments

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The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers. By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to ... more >

November 27, 2017

REVIEW: Where the Stars Rise – Anthology

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAnthology / Asia / diversity / family relationships / Fantasy / multicultural / Paranormal / POC / POC author / Sci-fi / space travel / Speculative-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Where the Stars Rise – Anthology

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Take a journey through Asia and beyond with twenty-three original thought-provoking and moving stories about identities, belonging, and choices—stories about where we come from and where we are going—each wrestling between ghostly pasts and uncertain future. LONG DESCRIPTION: ALL EMOTIONS ARE UNIVERSAL. WE LIVE, WE DREAM, WE STRIVE, ... more >

November 15, 2017

REVIEW x 2: Artemis by Andy Weir

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewscrime thriller / First-Person / murder / mystery / POC / science / Science Fiction / smuggling / space travel4 Comments

Dear Mr. Weir, Almost three years ago, I read and reviewed The Martian. While I didn’t love the book, I appreciated much about it. When I heard that you had a new book, a murder mystery set on the moon and titled Artemis, I requested an ARC so that I ... more >

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