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Amazon’s Forward Collection is half-apocalyptic, half Black Mirror

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

January 28, 2021 by postcardsandbooks Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, n.k. jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, n.k. jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth ·
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TikTok made me read it!

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

January 4, 2021 by Siskel101 2 Comments

For my first read of the year, I started with Dark Matter – a book I’d seen reviewed a lot on social media.  This book was part science fiction and part thriller.  It fully succeed in either genre but I still felt it was still an interesting premise and a good book overall. Its hard to explain the complex storyline without giving away the spoilers.  Its the journey of what would happen if you could go back and see what your life was like if you’d […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Blake Crouch

Siskel101's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Blake Crouch ·
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Escape From the Present with… THE FUTURE!

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

December 3, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: AI, amazon original stories, Amor Towlesl, Andy Weir, artificial intelligence, Blake Crouch, david harbour, forward, forward collection, future tech, kindle exclusive, n.k. jemisin, near future, Paul Tremblay, post apocalypse, survival, Veronica Roth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:131 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: AI, amazon original stories, Amor Towlesl, Andy Weir, artificial intelligence, Blake Crouch, david harbour, forward, forward collection, future tech, kindle exclusive, n.k. jemisin, near future, Paul Tremblay, post apocalypse, survival, Veronica Roth ·
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CBR12 Book Bingo – No Money!

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

September 4, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

Snowstorms, and zombies, and time travel, oh my! I requested Dark Matter from my local library shortly after reading Recursion. Once again, Blake Crouch did not disappoint. Crouch turned It’s a Wonderful Life into a science fiction thriller. The action and suspense felt so real, it left me sweaty. Every time I thought I had it figured out, a new twist would appear. Dark Matter is one of those books you do not want to read before bed, because you may not be able to put it down. While walking […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Blake Crouch, cbr12bingo

randirock's CBR12 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Blake Crouch, cbr12bingo ·
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CBR12 Book Bingo – Yellow

Recursion by Blake Crouch

September 4, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

I discovered Blake Crouch in the Book of the Month Club, where I saw his books featured in the “Members Most Loved” category. Once I dug into Recursion, I immediately saw why. Crouch writes books that are smart, twisty, and feature fully-developed characters, creating a trifecta that leaves the reader wanting more. I don’t normally lean toward science-fiction, but Crouch has almost single-handedly made me a fan of the genre. In Recursion, a mysterious phenomenon begins to pop-up throughout the population that causes its victims […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Blake Crouch, cbr12bingo, Philosophy, physics

randirock's CBR12 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Blake Crouch, cbr12bingo, Philosophy, physics ·
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Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe building, an Art Deco tower glowing white in the illumination of its exterior sconces.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

July 1, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A pretty good novel that plays around with a concept early that seems like it’s going to be fruitful, but then abandons it for way too familiar territory. In addition to all that, the writing is overwrought in ways that are unsuited to book, and this book is sometimes peopled with incredibly flat, and irritatingly unthinking characters. So we begin with Barry Sutton, an NYPD robbery detective, being first on the scene of a would be suicide attempt. He tries to talk the woman down […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Blake Crouch, Recursion

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:354 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Blake Crouch, Recursion ·
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