Alien World

Review: <em>We Are Legion (We Are Bob)</em> by Dennis E. Taylor

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is ridiculously fun. If a nerd got three wishes from a genie, experiencing what…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Knife of Never Letting Go</em> by Patrick Ness

This YA book has a great premise: on a distant planet, in a town with only men, everyone can hear…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Semiosis</em> by Sue Burke

Given a billion more years of evolution, what would plants evolve into? Given that life on Earth went from single-celled…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Dragon’s Egg</em> by Robert L. Forward

Dragon’s Egg is a fun, clever look at life evolving on the surface of a neutron star, where one hour…

7 years ago

Review: <em>House of Suns</em> by Alastair Reynolds

Author Alastair Reynolds isn’t afraid of big, strange ideas, and he puts on a parade of them in House of…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Girl in Landscape</em> by Jonathan Lethem

My kid is learning to play the piano, and part of that is using dynamics: playing some parts of the…

7 years ago

Review: <em>The Mote in God’s Eye</em> by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in 1975, The Mote in God’s Eye has not aged particularly well.…

7 years ago

27 Best Alien World Science Fiction Books

Interacting with aliens is always tricky, but when you've got a whole new world to worry about, things get much…

8 years ago