B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsastronaut / NASA / non-fiction / space flight / space travel7 Comments
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 >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAnthology / Asia / diversity / family relationships / Fantasy / multicultural / Paranormal / Sci-fi / space travel / Speculative-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Where the Stars Rise – Anthology
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 >
B- Reviews / C+ Reviewscrime thriller / First-Person / murder / mystery / 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 >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C ReviewsAction/Adventure / crime thriller / First-Person / near-future / Sci-fi / space travel6 Comments
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay ... more >
Publishing News50 Shades / Banned-Books / bookstore / Hong Kong / robots / SFF / space travel / used books2 Comments
Missing Hong Kong bookseller Lee Po returns home from mainland China after disappearing last December – Missing for upward of five months, Cheung Chi-ping, Lui Por, and, most recently, Lee Po, have returned to Hong Kong. Upon his return, Po asked Hong Kong police to end their investigation into his disappearance, claiming ... more >