Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Space horror, androids and a super creepy ship

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

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CBR13 Bingo: Landscape I am always here for space horror, especially ones that question the definition of human consciousness. And this book is creepily atmospheric, starring a fascinating main character who has her work cut out for her trying to be the therapist for the thirteen other human crew members on a mission to evaluate a planet for possible human colonization. It wasn’t supposed to be that way – Park’s mentor was supposed to be the primary therapist while Park was just supposed to be […]

“Slick” sci-fi for the middle school set

Friendroid by M.M. Vaughan

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Danny Lazio doesn’t get along with kids. It’s not really his fault – his single mom does the best she can to provide, but his classmates still come down on him for it. Of course, it probably doesn’t help that he has a bit of a temper, but who can blame him when kids say he has fleas and his mom gets his clothes from the dumpster? It’s fine – having no friends just gives him more time to play his favorite game Land X, […]

True Equality Is When Robots Can Be Just As Apathetic As Humans

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I don’t think I can add much to this one beyond what has already been said.  The narrator is a SecUnit belonging to a large powerful corporation that owns the rights to various planets and rents out survey rights and equipment at exorbitant prices while only investing in the cheapest technology themselves.  The narrator has hacked its governor module, and can function independently though all it wants is to be left alone and watch its stories. When things start going wrong on the mission, Murderbot, […]



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