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two cats, a scratching post, and a hardcover copy of Axiom's End

Young woman at loose ends finds an unexpected calling – with aliens!

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

February 14, 2023 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

Totally on accident, I have now read three alien invasion/first contact books in a row. (I did try to read a Nalini Singh in the middle and put it down in annoyance – sorry, gang!) But it was interesting to see the variety of stories: far in the future with scenes set on spaceships and other planets vs. two on Earth. Axiom’s End is the smallest of the stories in scale. Our hero is a young woman named Cora, who becomes pivotal to communicating with […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Aliens, first contact, government conspiracy, lindsay ellis

Bothari43's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Aliens, first contact, government conspiracy, lindsay ellis ·
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Never a Dull Moment

Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

September 10, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

I was reading this novel in the Apple Store (while waiting for them to check out my MacBook Air), when one of the techs came up to me and said how much he enjoyed Axiom’s End. I love it when a fellow reader sees your book and makes a comment. I agreed with him and was surprised when he told me there was a second book! I’ll have to look for it. I found Axiom’s End while using the RSS feed on Cannonball to find […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Aliens, invasion, lindsay ellis

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Aliens, invasion, lindsay ellis ·
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First contact, near-past historical science fiction.

Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

May 15, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 1/30 I don’t even really know what I want to say about this one! It wasn’t what I was expecting, even though I didn’t think I was going in expecting anything. Figure that one out. All I knew was that it was a First Contact story, and I liked the cover. I think I also might have known it took place in 2007. Our main character is twenty-one year old Cora*, whose father is basically an answer […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, alternate history, axiom's end, historical fiction, lindsay ellis, narfna, noumena, sci-fi, sf, sff

narfna's CBR14 Review No:69 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, alternate history, axiom's end, historical fiction, lindsay ellis, narfna, noumena, sci-fi, sf, sff ·
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This wasn’t for me so not sure how to grade it

Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

February 10, 2022 by sjfromsj Leave a Comment

Axiom’s End, the first in a trilogy, introduces and follows Cora Sabino, a college dropout from LA. Her father, Nils Ortega, left the family several years earlier and recently has made himself an enemy of the government after leaking information about potential extra terrestrial interaction. After a second major contact event in so many weeks shakes the area and puts her family in the CIA’s crosshairs, Cora comes in contact with something nonhuman that forces her to go on the run with help from her […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: lindsay ellis

sjfromsj's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: lindsay ellis ·
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Axiom's End

“Truth is a human right.”

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

October 21, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 3 Comments

I have no idea who Lindsay Ellis is, so I picked this up solely based on the blurb. I have a definite soft spot for first contact stories, especially ones where the humans involved are not, well, exactly who you’d pick to represent humanity. “Truth is not freely given in our society; it must be taken. Where walls are built, tear them down. Where borders are drawn, erase the line. Where you see wax, break the seal. Truth is a human right.” It’s 2007, and […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aliens, lindsay ellis

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:111 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aliens, lindsay ellis ·
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At least it wasn’t Nickelback

Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

March 26, 2021 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Lindsay Ellis’ debut novel is a doozy. Set in the recent past in 2007 she situates this science fiction novel in Bush’s America, as a whistleblower drops the knowledge bomb that we have made first contact with an alien species. Have we? Is it a hoax? No one is quite sure. The government disavows knowledge, but rather than be situated as your standard action-oriented alien adventure, we meet Cora, the estranged teenaged daughter of said whistleblower who is in the middle of the action, whether […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: axiom's end, lindsay ellis, Noumena #1

ardaigle's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: axiom's end, lindsay ellis, Noumena #1 ·
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