Shards of Earth hits everything I love about space opera. Great characters, a grand scale, interesting technology, aliens that are…
The Risen Empire has some interesting ideas about the far future. Humanity has split into several factions, one of the…
Author Alastair Reynolds isn’t afraid of big, strange ideas, and he puts on a parade of them in House of…
A while ago I had surgery. Nothing really major, but enough to put me in bed for several days. During…
The Justice of Toren was a colossal starship run by an artificial intelligence. That intelligence also linked thousands of human…
Revelation Space is a sprawling, hard-SF tale with enough original ideas for three thick novels. Seriously, it’s overflowing with the…
I learned about author Iain M. Banks when I was in San Francisco, swing dancing with a woman, who recommended…
Like many popular terms, "space opera" was coined as an insult. It's based on "soap opera" (nothing to do with…