Max Brooks wrote my two favorite zombie books: The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. He did an amazing…
Recursion is a fun page-turner, but it’s a little too similar to the author’s previous (and excellent) book, Dark Matter.…
A lot of people love John Varley's books, and he's a Hugo- and Nebula-award winner, so I decided to give…
Childhood’s End is considered Arthur C. Clarke’s greatest work. Better than 2001, better than Rendezvous With Rama, better then The…
The Risen Empire has some interesting ideas about the far future. Humanity has split into several factions, one of the…
Dark Matter is one of those books that I stayed up way too late reading. The science is perhaps a…
The Humans is an excellent dark comedy that sticks an alien, who hates humans, in a human mathematician’s body, and…
You don’t often see tense, page-turner science fiction with fungus as a starring role, but The Genius Plague by David…
The Grand Dark’s main draw is its steampunk-inspired world-building, which is excellent. Most of the action takes place in the…
I’ve never been a big military SF fan, but The Lost Fleet: Dauntless does a solid job of changing my…