What I’m Reading: The Quiet War

The Quiet War is science fiction novel after the Earth has gone through the Overturn — a catastrophic climate event brought about by global warming.  A new world order, based around conservative green values, emerges and attempts to restore the planet.  Meanwhile, humanity has spread to the Moon, Mars and the outer planets. These outer colonies … Read more

What I’m Reading: The Evolutionary Void

The Evolutionary Void is the third in Peter F. Hamilton’s Void series. The series takes place few hundred years after the events of Pandora’s Star/Judas Unchained. In it, the Greater Commonwealth — an expansive human civilization that’s spread through much of the galaxy — and its Artificial Intelligence allies find themselves attempting to deal with a faction of humanity hellbent on evolving the species into “post-physical existence” … whether the rest of us want it or not.

What I’m Reading: Century Rain

Century Rain is a space opera/noir/alternative history mash-up that echos Reynolds earlier work in its combination of post-Singularity speculation and end of the world/galaxy/university machinations. The book opens a few hundred years in the future. Earth has been rendered lifeless by a nanotechnology plague. Humanity survives in two factions: the Threshers, who are regular humans … Read more

What I’m Reading: New Moon

Book 2 of the Twilight vampire/romance series, in which the vampire Edward his leave of our protagonist Bella, leaving her distraught in Oregon. And yes, this is a huge change from reading The Cole Protocol. I’m reading the novel as part of a book exchange with my wife – I’m reading New Moon, she’s reading … Read more

What I’m reading: Courageous

Courageous is the third book in Jack Campbell’s military SF/space opera series called The Lost Fleet. As with the previous books, it tells the story of John “Black Jack” Geary, a legendary starship captain thought killed in combat a hundred years earlier, only to be found in suspended animation in an escape capsule. Once revived, … Read more

What I’m reading: Absolution Gap

I’ve been on a huge space opera kick for the last year or so and have been reading every example of the New Space Opera I can get my hands on. Space opera, for those who don’t know, is the sort of larger-than-life science fiction typified by Star Wars and Star Trek. Unlike Hard Science … Read more