Now available on Amazon. Kindle Edition, 457 pages Published May 20th 2022 Science Fiction / Futurism can be described thusly: Take a society. Tweak it in some way. A new technology. New methods of communication. Different approaches to education, or a new religion. Advances in scientific knowledge. Or, of course, meeting intelligent life from the …
Jury Duty Peter Cawdron 289 pages, Kindle Edition First published May 28, 2021 Antarctica has always had a special fascination for me. I grew up with the tales of Shackleton and Amundsen, and followed the exploits of Peary. I watched all the nature specials on the place, including, of course, Attenborough’s. More recently I was …
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 720 pp. There is an old saying attributed to the Arabs: “It is unwise to summon that which you cannot dismiss.” The underlying philosophy is that we can conjure up mighty powers and processes to deal with any given situation, but in the event of unintended consequences (and …
Peter Cawdron https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peter.cawdron Good things come in threes, to phrase a coin. Over the past 14 months I’ve ‘discovered’ Joe Abercrombie and Andy Weir, nether of whom were discovered as much as I stumbled along admiring butterflies or something, and someone put one of their books in my path. So it stands to no reason …
Artemis Artemis, copyright 2017, 309pp Crown Publications Weir’s middle novel, sandwiched between The Martian and Project Hail Mary, couldn’t be more different. Whereas the other two featured resourceful and scientifically literate men stranded far from Earth with little hope of return, Artemis has…Jazz. Jazz is 26, something of a loser, noted for making catastrophically bad …
The Martian, 369 pages Andy Weir copyright 2011, Crown Publishing 2014, available on Amazon in ebook and audio. As threatened, I saw down and read Andy Weir’s The Martian, the book upon which the generally marvelous Ridley Scott / Matt Damon movie was based. This was brought about by reading Weir’s suspense/thriller/geek fest, Project Hail …
Billy Summers Stephen King copyright 2021 Scribner, 527 pages I sometimes think of Stephen King as being the Al Hirschfeld of writers. With minimalist precision, with just a few strokes he can create a fully recognizable and unique character. It takes amazing skill to do that, and the results are so simple and effortless that …
Project Hail Mary Author Andy Weir Audio read by Ray Porter Cover artist Will Staehle Publisher Ballantine Books Publication date May 4, 2021 Media type Print, ebook, audiobook Pages 496 In Ripley Scott’s The Martian, Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is stranded alone on Mars, and has no way to communicate with Earth, which in turn …
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Co-written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker. Top Shelf Productions 2019, 204 pages I first learned of the Canadian internment of Japanese-descended people in British Columbia—some 90% of the residents in that province—when I was 12 years old. My father told me of …
Eight Novels by Joe Abercrombe I’ve been working my way through the collected works of Joe Abercrombie over the past few months, starting with the two books that begin his ongoing second trilogy, The Age of Madness (A Little Hatred and The Trouble with Peace) and his First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, Before They …