Cannonball Read 13

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha

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CBR13Bingo: Rep – Maya has several sensitivity triggers, including certain noises and textures I’m a longtime Kit Rocha reader, so of course I was beyond excited to see the next book in the Mercenary Librarians series. I went in expecting lots of found family goodness, steamy scenes and maybe a little murder-by-fork. And, oh boy, did I ever love this book! As a warning, this is the second in the series, so there will be spoilers for the first book. It’s basically super soldier Brady […]

Sundiver – David Brin (1980)

Sundiver by David Brin

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David Brin’s first novel and the first novel in his Uplift Saga books. I think there are six of them in total. Like first novels, there’s a lot thrown at the wall here. Brin was about 30 when he wrote this book, but he was also working on his PhD in Astronomy at the same time. The book itself feels somewhere in between a more hard sci-fi Neal Stephenson or a Kim Stanley Robinson book with a sense of humor. Spitting the difference. As hard […]

Gateway to Science Fiction and Octavia Butler

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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Cbr13bingo Gateway, Bingo #9-11 (horizontal, vertical and inner square) Parable of the Sower (1993) is an astoundingly prescient work of science fiction. Octavia Butler (1947-2006), winner of Nebula, Hugo and MacArthur prizes, tells the story of hyperempath Lauren Olamina in mid-2020s California. I reviewed this novel for the 2015 Cannonball Read, and I do believe that it (or really any written by Butler) would be a Gateway to reading more sci-fi/fantasy, and I hope a Gateway to reading more by Butler. Butler writes powerfully and […]

Dune Messiah – a worthy successor to Dune

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

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What happens after you conquer everything? This is a question i have always wondered about after hearing the story of Alexander the Great. Paul Atreides has won his war against the Harkonnens & the Emperor & his Fremen have brought their jihad to every corner of the known universe. Yet Paul is miserable.  This is partly due to his prescience which traps him as he sees the future unfold & he cannot see any way to escape it. He also sees his beloved Fremen move […]

Shadows of what could have been a decent book, alas

Shadows of Eternity by Gregory Benford

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It should be obvious by now that while I’m very much into science fiction, I’m more a space opera person than hard scifi. Gadgets and gizmos are cool, but I care mostly about the characters. Unfortunately, despite the blurb (a SETI library on the moon?!?) this book is the exact opposite of what I like. The Library on the Moon is a collection of alien AIs, referred to as Minds, and Messages, SETI communications. Ruth, newly arrived from Earth, wins a place training to become […]



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