What I’m Reading: Trading in Danger

Trading in Danger

Kylara Vatta’s dreams of a brilliant military career were ruined by one well-intentioned wrong decision; instead she goes to work for her family’s shipping company. Her first mission: captain a ship destined for the scrapyard. Of course, it’s not that easy as Vatta decides to try and turn a profit of her own using the … Read more

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: 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

Currently Reading: The New Space Opera

One thing I make a point of doing every summer is to put together a reading list. I may not get through all the books on the list, but I do try, and if nothing else, it gives me a non-work, non-family, non-computer related goal to strive for. Last summer, I decided to promote my … Read more