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Lightning Round

Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Batman Earth One, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns

Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer

Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

July 12, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

A few reviews of shorter books that I read quickly over the weekend and didn’t have extra time to flesh out… Tonguebreaker ***** Coming to terms with a society that doesn’t want you based on your body…and creating your own space instead…has to be a challenging thing. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha bares her soul to the world in this collection of poems and one-act plays. Her use of language to lecture gripped me and her exploration of what it means to live in this world, to […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Antartica, Batman, Batman Earth One, BIPOC, Disability, exploration, Geoff Johns, Graphic Novel, hardboiled, Jonathan Latimer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, mystery, New York City, Newberry Medal winner, poetry, Rebecca Stead, Solomon's Vineyard, Tonguebreaker, walter dean myers, Young Adult

Jake's CBR13 Review No:110 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Antartica, Batman, Batman Earth One, BIPOC, Disability, exploration, Geoff Johns, Graphic Novel, hardboiled, Jonathan Latimer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, mystery, New York City, Newberry Medal winner, poetry, Rebecca Stead, Solomon's Vineyard, Tonguebreaker, walter dean myers, Young Adult ·
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Fantastic start to what I’m sure will become my new obsession

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

October 20, 2020 by TheShitWizard 1 Comment

An absolute delight from start to finish, as a huge fan of both the diaries of Victorian explorers and fantasy, A Natural History of Dragons felt perfectly tailored for me and I adored it so much I’ve already gone ahead and bought a bunch more of the series. Lady Trent has always been fascinated by dragons, but in her day a lady’s place is most definitely meant to be sitting prettily in a drawing room, making sure to not tax her thoughts with anything more […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, alt-history, exploration, Fiction, Marie Brennan, natural history

TheShitWizard's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, alt-history, exploration, Fiction, Marie Brennan, natural history ·
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How Not To Colonize A Planet

Proxima by Stephen Baxter

April 7, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

If you ever wanted to know how humanity should not go about spreading away from Earth and colonizing the universe than oooo boy does Stephen Baxter have an example for you in his 2012 book, Proxima. In a nutshell: don’t do it until we’re a united planet. Otherwise, we’re just gonna space race our asses all over the universe and probably screw over everyone involved, from the remaining earthlings, to the residents of Sol planets, and to the newbie colonizers of distant planets in far […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: exploration, proxima, sci-fi, space, Stephen Baxter

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: exploration, proxima, sci-fi, space, Stephen Baxter ·
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Area X and its “poisonous” snakes (eye twitch)

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

February 4, 2016 by MacrameTrumpToupee 10 Comments

Thirty years ago, a mysterious border appeared, cutting off an isolated area of coast and swampland which has come to be known as Area X. Area X appears normal from the outside, but it’s not. Expeditions are sent in regularly to gather samples and to try and understand the changes taking place in this landscape. Sometimes they return, sometimes they don’t. Those who return are changed. Annihilation is the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy. It focuses on the 12th expedition, made up of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: exploration, female characters, thriller, weird fiction

MacrameTrumpToupee's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: exploration, female characters, thriller, weird fiction ·
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A sci-fi adventure on the evils of imperialism

Half Way Home by Hugh Howey

September 22, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

After reading and loving the Silo trilogy by Howey, I went back to look for others of his works, and found Half-Way Home to be a fascinating and well-done novel in its own right. It is the story of a group of 15-year-olds who had been raised in artificial wombs aboard a spaceship, one of hundreds of such missions sent out from a future Earth to find and colonize viable planets. Missions landing on nonviable planets were abruptly aborted by the artificial intelligence (AI) controlling […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, colonization, exploration, Imperialism, sci-fi

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: artificial intelligence, colonization, exploration, Imperialism, sci-fi ·
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