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I read this book twice

To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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I downloaded this audiobook from my library.  I remember thinking “Ooh, I wanted to read this book.”  I think I made it through the first sentence before I said to myself “Ooh, I already read this book.”  I really didn’t remember most of it though.  Thankfully it was just as good the second time around!  It’s also a short book, so it was nice to read after Dune, which took me almost two weeks to finish.  I think this audiobook was around 4 or 5 […]

What a gas! Unsung hero gets her day in the stars

Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space by  Suzanne Slade

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Another unsung hero who made it possible to touch the stars was Mary Morgan. And we see how Morgan was a girl who at age eight could not read/write but by the time she was an adult she was doing chemistry, making fuels for rockets and barely had a college education in Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space.  Suzanne Slade shows how Morgan was not going to let “doing chores” hold her back, and she was not going to let the […]

Murderbot does the tv detective partner thing

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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Fugitive Telemetry is basically ‘Murderbot does a murder mystery in a cop-outside expert tv episode’, with Murderbot being the outside expert, Station Security represented mostly by Indah who doesn’t want/trust the outsider, and a bit of a locked-door mystery as to who the dead person is, how and why they were killed all unknown. Besides the usual entertaining Murderbot snarkiness, there is a little bit of world building on Preservation Station, more in the setting sense and a little bit of cultural background. There also […]

Dogs (and tigers and sheep and iguanas and jackalope and goldfish and krill and crocodiles and dinosaurs and unicorns…….) in Space!

Star Beasts by Stephanie Young

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Star Beasts is a fun story that Stephanie Young has created. However, due to a lot of characters you will meet (some even for a short moment), sometimes that can make things a smidgen confusing. However, this story has great potential for being the new “IT graphic novel” for ages 8 to 12. The story is if Star Trek, Firefly, and Andromeda hooked up with all the science-fi spoof and most of the animal stories, you might get something like this. And plot? All I […]

We all live in the Goldilocks Zone!

The Goldilocks Zone: Real Facts about Outer Space by Drew Sheneman

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Did you know that Earth is what scientists call “in a Goldilocks Zone?” It is called that because it is in that sweet spot in the planets line up that makes it perfect for life. It is not too hot, or too cold, but just right.  Drew Sheneman’s The Goldilocks Zone: Real Facts about Outer Space is a great way to find out why this is, plus our two narrators (Goldilocks and Baby Bear) entertain you the reader as we read along on the adventure. […]

The ever tricky space colonization genre

Do You Dream of Terra Two? by Temi Oh

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In an alternate Earth, where space travel began before the first World War, a manned trip to another solar system is now possible in the year 2012. Temi Oh uses this conceit to explore what it would be like for us, people of the early 21st century, to explore the solar system and eventually colonize a new planet. It’s a great conceit. We’re introduced in the pre-launch section to a world with a space museum, one that has beautiful traditions dating almost a century at […]



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