Tag Archives: science fiction

Ryland Grace was a microbiologist, and then he wrote a paper that pissed everyone off. He quit and became a schoolteacher. He was very happy as a schoolteacher. And then another scientist, in a very different field, saw something strange … Continue reading →

In the first book of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice, we met Breq, a lone soldier who used to be a starship with dozens or even hundreds of ancillary bodies, now inhabiting just this lone survivor of an … Continue reading →

Imagine your world has been invaded by a spacefaring human civilization – highly advanced, rapacious and unspeakably cruel. They want your world’s resources and they’re going to take what they want, and in the process of invading – which they … Continue reading →

Poul Anderson began writing his own “future history” in the 1950s, with its starting point being that there would be a limited nuclear war at some point in that decade. From that point would develop a secret effort to build … Continue reading →

The protagonist of the first short novel in this omnibus – which is in fact Eye of Cat – is William Blackhorse Singer, a Navaho born in the 20th century, and still alive and fit and healthy, almost two centuries later. … Continue reading →

Everina Maxwell’s Ocean’s Echo returns to the setting previously created for her Winter’s Orbit SF novel. While this book refers to the earlier one’s setting, overall it does not require an understanding of the previous piece. Tennel is the nephew … Continue reading →