So, a little background on this before I get to the 5-star review: I recently started a new job and I knew from our very first team meeting that I was in the right place. We spent half the meeting trading book recommendations! And this was one of the recommendations and I am very, very grateful for it: Devolution: A… Read more
It’s all fun and games when Dynamica Inc. develops an implantable chip that feeds virtual reality streams right into your brain — until the government makes the chips mandatory. If you thought people were addicted to their games and their phones now, wait until you meet Dynamica Inc. They have developed virtual reality that goes beyond goggles. This VR is… Read more
This is one of those books that everyone was raving about, but I hadn’t gotten around to reading it. I’m glad I did, because it’s one of the best I’ve read this year. I admit I got bogged down a bit in the beginning, but once it started building momentum, I was hooked. Sci-fi, espionage, time-travel, romance, and so very… Read more
This book is brilliant. I feel like I read a long love poem about a futuristic war fought by time travelers. It took a minute to figure out just what was happening, but it was so easy to get swept up in it. Red and Blue are agents on opposite sides of the Time War. Red belongs to the Commandment,… Read more
How could you resist a title like this? Something’s Alive on the Titanic by Robert J. Sterling is one of the bargain books I picked up for fun over the past weeks. The title got my attention but, to be honest, my expectations weren’t terribly high. However, I was pleasantly surprised by a book that was well-researched and a fun… Read more
The Dark Side by Anthony O’Neill is possibly the most fun bit of sci-fi I’ve read in ages. I laughed a lot, cringed a little, and found a whole new set of rules to live by – The Brass Code. The Brass Code is invoked by an evil, amnesiac android named Leonardo Black. Some of my favorites: Don’t take.… Read more
PEOPLE OF EARTH: DROP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND BUY THIS BOOK. I can’t tell you how much I loved this book. This is the sort of book that makes you bounce in your chair while you’re reading it. You know that little frisson of glee that you get as a reader when you know something really cool is about… Read more
It’s kind of a funny thing. When I was telling some bookish friends about The Man, one of them commented that they hate it when books break all “the rules” of time travel. Seems silly to me – how could time travel have rules? Sean Ferrell’s Man in the Empty Suit breaks all the rules of time travel and has some fun doing… Read more
I knew this one was going to be fun the moment I saw the pitch in my email. I have been pretty burned out the Pride and Prejudice and… genre, but this is a little different sort of mash-up. Ian Doescher’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is a retelling of the classic sci-fi movie in iambic pentameter. The Bard would be proud. You know,… Read more
WordPress and I are not getting along lately. I have had several posts just disappear into the ether. Others, like this one, are scheduled to post and just never appear. My apologies to the good folks at Tor/Forge for missing the review date. Virus Thirteen by Joshua Alan Parry presents a scary vision of the future. Amazing medical advances have… Read more