Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hilarious, quirky science fiction fun

Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez

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If you haven’t picked up anything by A. Lee Martinez and you’re a fan of humor-laced horror or science fiction (aka Douglas Adams type stuff), you’re missing out. This book was the third or fourth by him I’ve read, and each one has been a delight.   As the title should indicate, this novel is ridiculous. It’s about an alien from Neptune (who looks like a giant mollusk) who is a super genius. In his quest to understand “science” he’s constantly conquering worlds and creating diabolical weapons, making him a kind of accidental super villain. He long ago conquered Earth, […]

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7/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

Some People Call Him The Space Vampire

The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson

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Apparently they made a movie about this called Lifeforce but I’ve never seen it.  It sounds like from reading reviews that the movie is way better than the book, so maybe you want to go watch the movie instead of reading this book? There are some astronauts who find an alien ship that is full of what looks like corpses in suspended animation, and they start trying to study them.  The bodies are humanoid but are obviously alien and seem to be dead.  But then one of the astronauts tries to make out with one of them bodies and she […]

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7/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Hey, look, we’re all different. Isn’t that swell?

The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the somewhat unwieldy title to an absolutely delightful story of a tightly-knit group of space-farers tasked with tunneling through space, setting up wormholes that allow for interplanetary travel. It’s set in the distant future (obviously), where humanity has made Earth uninhabitable and are scattered across the cosmos. They’ve joined a collective of alien races called the Galactic Commons. That’s pretty much it, in a nutshell. The broad elements here will be familiar to anyone who’s been in contact with the genre before, whether that contact be through Star Trek, Firefly, or […]

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4/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

Toxic masculinity and misogyny given free reign

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

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Todd Hewitt lives in a community peopled only by men, and has one month left until he too becomes one. All the men are afflicted with something called “the Noise”, meaning they can hear each other’s thoughts, all the time, all over town. There were women in the community once, but they didn’t survive the infection that brought the noise. Todd’s mother was one of the last women to die, while Todd was still a baby. While Todd and his dog, Manchee, are out walking in the area around Prentisstown one day, he comes across a place with no noise […]

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4/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

A Fun Read Not Heavy on the Sci-Fi

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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Sometimes, a bookclub pick ends up really working well.  This book was described to us as being like Firefly but I’m not really sure if I totally buy the comparison.  But it was still enjoyable. The story begins with a young woman who is fleeing Mars and signs up to be a sort of secretary/translator to a working ship.  The ship works by poking holes in space, creating wormholes, or something of that sort.  I think they explain it in the book, but not in a really science-y way.  What it’s more about than the mechanics of space travel is […]

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3/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

The Stars Are Out Tonight

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

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Tor.com has a book club where you can download a free ebook every month and this book was one of their selections last year.  Even though I grew up reading a lot of classic science fiction, I am sometimes wary of it because it isn’t necessarily that compelling.  For instance, reading something like the Foundation books by Asimov, where it’s a lot of ideas hitting you left and right but no characters to really anchor the story.  While Spin has its roots in that sort of classic sci-fi, it also features compelling characters and a really interesting story. Tyler Dupree […]

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2/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

A Giant Woman Should Be More Exciting

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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I picked up a free copy of this book at Worldcon last year.  I find free copies tend to be hit and miss, usually it’s a book that a publisher really wants to promote.  The last one I had read was Red Rising which was just awful, so I was a bit nervous about this one.  But the cover was very appealing.  I know they say you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover, but who hasn’t picked up a book thinking it was going to be more interesting based on the cover image.  The description of the book sounded interesting […]

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2/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Well, It’s Obviously Not a Vampire

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

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  There is a great mystery at the heart of Dreamcatcher, and it is this: I have no idea how it ended up on my e-reader. I didn’t buy it. Nobody gifted it to me. I’m not a King aficionada so it’s not as if it got lost in my enormous collection. But anyway: there it was, and for reasons that are entirely beyond me, I decided to give it a try. Let me preface this by saying I’d never read a Stephen King novel, so I have no material for comparison. I vaguely remember watching the 2003 film, though. […]

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1/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

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