Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
This review is brought to you in three levels, according to your tolerance for spoilers. I would like to state, for the record, I think anyone reading this review who hasn’t read the book should go in knowing as little as possible. If you think that’s just a swell idea, please remain at review level one, no spoilers: only the info you can find on the dust jacket. Level two will have some basic premise spoilers, and I’ll go into a little detail about the […]
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Like many of you, I absolutely fell in love with The Martian when I read it a few years ago. I think I read it the year before I joined CBR, so I don’t have a review of it. I also quite enjoyed Artemis, though I feel that a lot of people were split over that one. In a sense, I think Project Hail Mary is a bit of return to form for Weir: it has more in common with The Martian, I think, than […]
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Midway through I was very grumpy and wanted to give this a lower review, but upon finishing I’m a feeling a bit more charitable and so three star it is. To summarize this book in comparison to Weir’d well known debut (which I will spoil in general sense below): take every plot arc in The Martian and dial it waaaay up. To elaborate: The Martian was subtitled amongst some subset of audiences as “a fantasy of what we could do if NASA had a fully funded budget and […]
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
Ark by Veronica Roth
Rand0m1ze by Andy Weir
You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles
The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch
So I downloaded the 6 novellas that make up Amazon’s new Forward Collection, which appears to be a collection of sci-fi short stories by known authors (even though I have never anything by most of them). You can read them for free if you’re a Prime customer. I decided I will read them one each morning over a week and review them as I read them, but wait to post all reviews in one post. I will do it this way because these are short, and […]
Ark by Veronica Roth
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay
Randomize by Andy Weir
You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towlesl
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch
And you know what? The future isn’t that bad! Well, it is full of disasters- pandemic, plague, asteroids, climate change, robot uprising -but there are always sparks of humanity ready to push through none the less. Amazon’s Forward collection, a group of five short stories from some big names, throw some big ideas out into the universe and let you, in a way, choose your own adventure! I suppose there is a “correct” order in which to read these, but I didn’t bother. I don’t think […]
Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir & Sarah Andersen
Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Wendy from Peter Pan, and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz have all had a rough go of it after their adventures in the stories. And the stories we were told were not their only adventures. No, these girls have grown up a bit and have spent more time in their respective other worlds. Alice is bitter and angry, Wendy always carries a knife, and Dorothy has been subject to electroshock therapy, but that last bit is cannon, I think. […]
