I have never before hit my CBR goal and then just stopped, but 2020 has sapped my motivation and willpower and wordpower. So these aren’t real reviews, but I did want to do a brief round-up of some of the books I’ve finished recently, because one was SO GOOD I needed to add my voice to the chorus of praise, and because one was SO disappointing I needed to growl about it for a sec. So here’s my Cannonball Lightning Round: So You Want […]
“And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.”
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
At one point, I was considering giving this five stars, I was having so much fun with it. Some pacing issues towards the end, as well a tiny quibble with the ending brought me back down to earth, though. But overall, fun! Karen Memory is a book I wasn’t really looking forward to reading, for what reason I’m not sure. I’d never read Elizabeth Bear before (but will in future!), and sometimes Westerns just don’t work for me (and other times I love them). But […]
A bunch of gay as hell space books
The Disasters by M.K. England
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
These are some of the sci-fi books I read in 2019. I’m not going to specify how for each one but they are all gay as hell in various ways, which is honestly just how I think space is going to be for us when we finally get there. Or at least, I sure hope. The Disasters by M.K. England takes one of my favorite tropes, a ragtag bunch of outcasts who circumstances force together must fight for their survival and learn to trust and […]