pickThis is the follow up to Mickey7 and I kind of liked this one better. The emphasis is less on how Mickey is an expendable and more on his diplomatic efforts with the Creepers. We get to see more of the planet and the other life on it.
The basic premise of the book is clear: miniaturised people have to survive the micro-savagery of an ordinary garden. The specific milieu is a post-abundance world, ecologically poisoned by misuse of pesticides resulting in the deaths of billions by starvation. However, there is plenty of food for an insect-sized elite, providing the dystopian political power struggles of opposing factions can be resolved: or one side destroys the other!
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pickLow end of the pick scale. I‘d have liked it better if I‘d known from the beginning that it‘s really a series of interconnected perspectives of characters that will never meet, but I kept wondering when all the threads would connect. Still, it‘s a ridiculous but funny premise that Scalzi uses to also be thoughtful. Wil Wheaton, as always, is a great narrator. Continued with The Dead Zone on my #audiowalk
pickBook 2 of the Hyperion series, continuing the story of a group of pilgrims who are traveling together and doing their part to get rid of the bad guys and save the entire universe. Same interesting characters from book 1 and this book follows them all to their conclusions. Really liked it and when I feel like 1200 more pages of sci-fi I‘ll pick up books 3 & 4!
pickOh My Gosh, this is a very well worded book. The writing style tells instead of shows, which I don‘t like, yet the story itself more than makes up for it. This is comprised of short stories. While issues are also popping up with the robots, nobody seems to really care. Because of how society “needs” the robots. This is an incredible book to be reading nowadays with how robots are becoming increasingly a part of our society.
April wasn't a great month of reading. What I read was just okay, so while I pick Scalzi's “When the Moon Hits Your Eye“ as my top pick for April, it only comes with a so-so approval rating. I am moving it forward over The Black Cat Tail Assassins, but that's only because I felt just so-so about that book too. #bookbracket #2025bookbracket
so-soI'll have to give my ultimate rating some thought, but it felt like it just kind of fizzled out. Even given it's mostly about the robots finding a cosy found family, and not about the world it's set against, the pace suddenly accelerated to smooth everything out in a handful of pages at the end.
I listened to the audiobook version read by Mark Boyett.
Definitely not my favorite Sawyer but interesting anyway. I found it a bit dry, but with lots of science and lots of imagination about where the future might lead us. I especially liked the aliens and how different from us they were.
