First Contact

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…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Axiom’s End</em> by Lindsay Ellis

Axiom’s End is one of those books I went back to every chance I could, and I finished it in…

4 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…

5 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…

5 years ago

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>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>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>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.…

8 years ago

Review: <em>Echopraxia</em> by Peter Watts

I have a bad habit of getting excited by a book and skimming, eager to find out what happens next.…

10 years ago