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"Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine--a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly …
"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise …
I love the allegory for modern technology and its use in modern nigeria, a gripping read
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday …
There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, …
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
Olympos is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons published in 2005; it is the sequel to Ilium …
From the author of the Hyperion Cantos -- one of the most acclaimed popular series in contemporary science fiction -- …
This book feels like an encapsulation of the banality of evil - Annie is such a well written villain.
I keep coming back to King’s work, and he is yet to disappoint me. This book feels like a train ride. It took barely anytime to get started and hit the right pacing to the last mile, when it tapered off the story beautifully.
A wonderful work of horror, this is Stephen King at his finest
The unmissable follow-up to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin.
Earth is failing. In a desperate …
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful …
I particularly liked the scene with the white Babalawo in the desert who gave her a blunt. I feel that’s where the book picked up for real, but it barreled towards a not-very-satisfying end.
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands …
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a …
The Book starts out with the human interstellar empire at its peak, and the greatest human scientist, Dr. Avrana Kern, is watching the disastrous end of an experiment to terraform a planet that is several light years away from earth, and try to recreate human evolution there.
Unknown to her, a catastrophe is about to befall the empire she knows, plunging humanity into the dark ages and relegating her experiment to mere legend.
After they are able to salvage a ship from the ruins of the old world, the last colony of humans are on their way to that same planet, seeking a place to set down roots and grow once more.
This sets up a scenario where you are watching an alien invasion from the point of view of the aliens (the human beings). I found myself, very much like Dr. Kern, rooting against that ship that represented the …
The Book starts out with the human interstellar empire at its peak, and the greatest human scientist, Dr. Avrana Kern, is watching the disastrous end of an experiment to terraform a planet that is several light years away from earth, and try to recreate human evolution there.
Unknown to her, a catastrophe is about to befall the empire she knows, plunging humanity into the dark ages and relegating her experiment to mere legend.
After they are able to salvage a ship from the ruins of the old world, the last colony of humans are on their way to that same planet, seeking a place to set down roots and grow once more.
This sets up a scenario where you are watching an alien invasion from the point of view of the aliens (the human beings). I found myself, very much like Dr. Kern, rooting against that ship that represented the last of our kind, hoping against hope that humanity goes extinct.
If you want a new point of view on evolution, intelligence, empathy and what it means to be human, Tchaikovsky's space epic is the book for you. I found myself wiping a few tears from my eyes at the climax of the book, and while it's not a page turner, it is a poignant, thoughtful story