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I don’t want to review this, f*** you.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

July 2, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 28/30 It’s too good! I loved it too much! This is like how I put off watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier because I love Bucky too much. My feelings, THEY CANNOT BE CONTAINED WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE ME CONTAIN THEM. I was going to try and re-read this before I reviewed it to try and make some thoughts more thoughtful and coherent, but I just don’t have the time right now, even though […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, genrebending, lit-fic, literary, narfna, pandemics, sci-fi, Sea of Tranquility, sff, time travel

narfna's CBR14 Review No:96 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, genrebending, lit-fic, literary, narfna, pandemics, sci-fi, Sea of Tranquility, sff, time travel ·
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“This isn’t fun. It isn’t exciting. I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.”

Stray (Touchstone, #1) by Andrea K. Höst

May 17, 2022 by narfna 3 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 8/30 It actually took me quite a bit to get through this one, despite how much I enjoyed it, but I’m blaming that on the fact that I had downloaded the free Kindle edition years and years ago, and Kindle books for non-romances are always iffy with my attention span for some reason. But this really was good! Pretty unlike any other YA sci-fi I’ve read, a unique reading experience. (I’m going to try and track down […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Andrea K. Höst, narfna, sci-fi, self published, sff, stray, YA sci-fi, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:76 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Andrea K. Höst, narfna, sci-fi, self published, sff, stray, YA sci-fi, Young Adult ·
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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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Couldn’t clear the hurdle of suspending my disbelief on this one.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

May 15, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

One of the hazards inherent in reading older science fiction (especially sff published before the turn of the century!) is that the science just wasn’t there at the time it was written, and in some unfortunate cases like this one (where we now understand a hell of a lot more about biology and evolution), that makes the book more of a time capsule than a thrilling tale. At least, it did for me. The Island of Doctor Moreau follows Edward Prendick, sole survivor of  of […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, classic sf, classics, h g wells, narfna, sff, the island of doctor moreau

narfna's CBR14 Review No:66 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, classic sf, classics, h g wells, narfna, sff, the island of doctor moreau ·
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Won’t be reading the sequels, thank you.

Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

December 22, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one didn’t work out for me so much. And it tricked me! I was really into it for like the first twenty pages (hard not to pay attention when a giant asteroid pulverizes Italy), but once the crew of the Endeavor were introduced, this book became pretty dull for me. Rendezvous with Rama, which is a Hugo award winner, was published in 1973. I can see how something like this published fifty years ago would have been a big deal. But there are just so many […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, classic sf, narfna, Rendezvous with Rama, sci-fi, sff

narfna's CBR13 Review No:192 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, classic sf, narfna, Rendezvous with Rama, sci-fi, sff ·
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