pickI loved Ender‘s Shadow just as much—if not more—than Ender‘s Game! Bean‘s journey from the streets to Battle School was riveting, his genius and growth fascinating to watch. His rivalry with Achilles was chilling, and the moment he realized the final battle was real gave me chills. What struck me most was how he embraced Ender‘s shadow with loyalty, not resentment. This book was unforgettable.
#weekendreads
I‘m enjoying juggling only two books this Valentine‘s weekend.
“The Bell Jar” for #HashtagBrigade
“The Zero Stone” for #LitsySFBC
pickAshton‘s latest makes for a quick & fun listen! Dalton Greaves left a lonely life in WV to work for the Unity a space initiative run by a snail-like species looking for other intelligent beings. The book opens when they land on a planet with giant insect-like creatures at the same time as their space rivals, stick-bug like aliens. With humor & heart, this is a genuinely fun & well-performed listen! Can‘t wait for more from Ashton!
Reading "Fantastic Voyage" reminded me of my love of the miniaturised humans genre, of which there is too little written, and not enough in my collection, so I ordered some more, which arrived today ?
As well as FV, I've read Lindsey Gutteridge's Cold War in a Country Garden series, both authors using an espionage setting. The blurb for Gordon's Micronaut series gives the setting as an incipient overpopulation/food scarcity crisis, but
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pickA fun novelisation of the 1966 movie by Asimov, who does what he can within the scifi premise to include realistic science as problems to be solved by the crew of scientists and technicians, miniaturised in a nuclear-powered submarine and injected into the bloodstream of a defecting physicist with an inoperable brain tumour to save his life and the knowledge he has in order to maintain a cold war stalemate.
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pickOn a whim decided to read this. I knew nothing except sci-fi and futuristic.
It was interesting and good enough I put a hold in on the second book.
The story was good, the writing good, I liked most of the characters. We shall see where the series takes us.
pick17/100 Until now, I've only read one book by Lem, Tales of Pirx The Pilot, and it was kind of mundane. He made being a spaceship pilot as exciting as driving a bus. Anyway, that did not prepare for this book, which is very funny. Trurl and Klapaucius are constructors, who get into many misadventures because their machines often have very unexpected consequences. The format is like short stories, but they build on each other, into absurd ⬇️⬇️
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