Alien

Review: <em>Heaven’s River</em> by Dennis E. Taylor

Heaven’s River is the fourth book of the excellent Bobiverse series, and instead of cruising along well-worn narrative paths, author…

2 years ago

Review: <em>The Road to Roswell</em> by Connie Willis

Author Connie Willis outdoes herself with humor and heart in The Road to Roswell, where a stealthy, desperate first contact…

2 years ago

Review: <em>The Kaiju Preservation Society</em> by John Scalzi

The Kaiju Preservation Society is ridiculously fun. It’s easy to imagine author John Scalzi grinning like a maniac as he…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Drunk on All Your Strange New Words</em> by Eddie Robson

I’m a big fan of humorous, character-driven books about alien languages (we all have our kinks) and Drunk on All…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Children of Time</em> by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The idea was to terraform a world to prepare it for human life (check, done), send in a supervirus that…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Lagoon</em> by Nnedi Okorafor

A giant spaceship lands in the waters offshore of Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria, and things get out…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Childhood’s End</em> by Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood’s End is considered Arthur C. Clarke’s greatest work. Better than 2001, better than Rendezvous With Rama, better then The…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Humans</em> by Matt Haig

The Humans is an excellent dark comedy that sticks an alien, who hates humans, in a human mathematician’s body, and…

6 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…

6 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…

6 years ago