Tag: Science Fiction
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The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch by Garth Nix
A truly wild ride in an offbeat, inventive world of warrior scientist nuns and a forest on the move to fend off invading aliens. Such a rich and frenetic story, so full of wonder. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch is a 20–30 minute short story by Garth…
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Snowpiercer
The world is a frozen, post-apocalyptic wasteland, with the only surviving humans left perpetually circling the globe aboard the luxury train, Snowpiercer, 1001 cars long… The premise The train’s constant movement provides the energy required to keep her passengers alive and safe from the inhospitable conditions outside. However, the ceaseless forward motion also means the…
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Project Hail Mary and a total eclipse of the Moon
TLDR: I tore through Project Hail Mary, the latest scifi thriller from Andy Weir (author of The Martian and Artemis), turning the final page a couple of hours before we were treated to a blood supermoon. As with The Martian and Artemis, Andy Weir has infused Project Hail Mary with mystery, scientific curiosity, humour, and…
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The Last Day
Andrew Hunter Murray’s post-apocalyptic thriller is set in a world where Earth’s spin has ground to a halt, leaving half the world suffering eternal frozen darkness, and the other half burning in constant sunlight. When the world stops turning, Britain lands somewhere between the two extremes – a habitable zone where it’s perpetually mid-morning. The…
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The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season is the first in the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. It’s been on my reading pile for years – I mean, you can hardly ignore a trilogy that wins the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, can you? And wow, this book did not disappoint. I can’t…
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Planetfall and Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
Emma Newman’s Planetfall and Temi Oh’s Do You Dream of Terra-Two? both consider what happens when a small segment of humanity leaves a dying Earth to explore and establish colonies on distant planets. They contemplate the unique impacts on the human mind of isolation, the abyss of space, and living in close quarters with a…
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Revenger and Shadow Captain
Alastair Reynolds’ Revenger series is set in the far future where humanity has colonised worlds built from the debris of our solar system’s planets. The story follows two sisters who sign on with a crew of space-faring treasure hunters in order to bring in the coin their family needs to stave off bankruptcy. Their crew…
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