In my archaeology classes, we talked a bit about lumpers and splitters, how people tend to split up species, tool styles, etc – lump them together, or split according some generally subtle difference. I myself tend to waver a bit, but lean towards lumping. This book, which probably has already been read and reviewed by many, premises that a community will split itself up based on differences in personality, detectable and defined by a mysterious drug induced scenario test. But what happens if people can’t […]
The Apollo Academy
In the mood for some new adult sci-fi with a brilliant ass-kicking heroine? Of course you are! Kimberly P. Chase’s The Apollo Academy is the first book of a promising new series about Aurora Titon, an heiress who’s training to be a shuttle pilot for lunar missions. She may, in fact, be the best pilot the Academy has ever trained — assuming she survives her first semester, since someone is apparently trying to kill her.
Carol Danvers is my hero.
– – – Meet Carol Danvers. She used to be a pilot, but after the explosion of a Kree device gifted her with alien powers, now she’s an Avenger who lives in the top of the Statue of Liberty and makes out with Iron Patriot on the side. She’s the kind of gal who takes her cat into space. She loves Star Wars and punching people. We have only just met, but I love her. Even before I really got into the story, I was […]
A scary, political, techno-thrilling ride of a book.
I think I might be too stupid to write this review. Long story short: This book was a hell of a ride. It was slightly problematic as a novel, but damn if it wasn’t powerful anyway. It should probably be required reading. Long story long? Weeeeeellll. That’s when my brain starts to make whirring and booping noises and then I want to put my laptop away and go to sleep. Or eat a milkshake. Either one of those things, really. Marcus Yallow is a seventeen […]
Cat Stevens still has a great head of hair by the way
Some seriously crazy shit went down in this book! For real, the book is like seven pages long (gross underestimation, Amazon tells me it’s 304! Don’t listen to anything I say I am just a huge liar)
The Life and Times of a Sassy Space Captain
Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon (1990) Two writers for the price of one! Or, since it’s three novellas, six for the price of one? This is an interesting read, mostly because of the first book (it’s split into three books). Sassy, or Sass, is a young colonial girl on a distant world who sees her family killed by slavers and is kidnapped, along with the other children. “Conditioned” to obey and kept under the worst conditions, the children are sold as slaves based on […]
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