Enno Rehling

A wonderful book, like all the previous ones in this series. Short and sweet, but also just a little sad.

This book was very amusing, but also straight-up informative. The author has done a lot of research into the problems that arise from putting humans into space, and the history of addressing them. I'd go so far as saying that this is essential reading for anyone planning to write a book, movie or TV show set in space.

I actually quiet like the art in Machine Qui Rêve, although the story was too confusingly toldfor my tastes. Luna Fatale on the other hand is average Tome & Janry fare, and the five short stories are too short. Meh.

Pretty sure now that I prefer Franquin over Tome and Janry, and Gaston over Spirou. And stories in Champignac over the ones where they travel far. The Chinatown story especially didn't age well, everyone is a racial carricature.

Dark.

Loved every minute. McGuire returns to the children of the first book, and continues their story in an adventure that spans several worlds, but also introduces us two some new characters. Time travel and non-linear timelines can get messy, but it's very well handled, as is the internal “logic” of the nonsense candyland that we spend most of our time in.

Highly recommended to anyone who loved the first book, especially if you loved it more than book two. Not quite a standalone book, you should at least read “Every Heart A Doorway” before you get into this one.

I came to this for the art, but I'm not convinced by the story. It's pretty weird.

I had to return this book to the library half-finished, but I think that was enough stories of mutilation, loss, heartbreak and tears. After a while, the interviews start to resemble each other. A pointless war indeed.

This book hasn't aged well. It may be one of the first cases of a dystopian novel, but the author's imagination doesn't stretch much further than that. A lot of his points are very on the nose, and the final chapters repeat them, just in case the reader has made it this far without figuring out the message. Would not recommend, but for some reason it still gets assigned in school.

Very entertaining read, I'll definitely pick up the sequel!

I like these looks at ordinary life in different cultures, even of there's not much of a story.

Absolutely loved this book, the Nebula is well-deserved. I was admittedly hesitant at first, given that it starts out with a pandemic that seems to mirror recent events, and I was afraid it would be difficult to read in the way that Wanderes felt heavy. But it was not like that at all. This book is instead a declaration of love to live music, to community, and to finding your own path.

In other words, if this had been a movie, the body horror in the first act might have scared me off, and prevented me from seeing the beautiful road movie that makes up the second act, and the amazing and hopeful conclusion.

It took me a long time to warm up to this, which made me run out of time on my library loan in the end. I need to catch those lat 40 pages that I was only skip-reading, some other time.

The TV show deviates a lot, for obvious reasons, and fleshes out the academy members more.

Particle physics and multi-dimensional maths aren't what I'm looking for in my science fiction, and I felt very lost a bunch of times. But even then, it still managed to tell a fine story, once I got used to the idea that every other chapter would go way over my head, and all I could hope for was to get the general idea and what it meant for the overall quest the characters were on.

I learned a lot about the U.S. empire that I didn't already know – the history of the Philippines or Hawaii wasn't really covered in any class I've ever taken, and outside of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, I had never before had reason to look it up. Highly recommend this to anyone with more than a passing interest in the United States.

A collection of short stories in which Le Guin once again imagines alternative civilizations, or in one case an alternative history, with a strong feminist bend. My favorite of them was “Solitude”, about a girl who grows up on an alien planet studied by her mother, a Hainish observer, but ends up going so thoroughly native that she has trouble fitting into “normal” society again.

It's the flawed characters I come for, and this book didn't disappoint. There were some unexpected connections to the Glass Hotel, and the themes of making bad investment and getting screwed by the economy reappear.

My second book in the series, and it was another fun and quick read. It will be interesting to see Miles and Gregor's future in the series, they certainly have their challenges to overcome.

I didn't know what to expect from a prequel book that tells the story of Jack and Jill, but this was beautiful.

I was a bit harsh in my last review, and here I've just finished another of her books just days later. Mandel's characters are flawed, but allthemore life-like for it. As readers, we still root for them, because they're human beings, and they deserve to get a happy ending. Except for Aria, of course.

So sad that this is probably the last of these.

Not what I hoped for (I loved Station Eleven and wanted more), but still a compelling read, although it drags on a bit towards the end, wanting to wrap up the story of every one of the many characters.

The story felt poignant to me, because I spent some time in the company of people who were running a very similar scheme. “It's possible to both know and not know something”, absolutely. I also spent a lot of time in my youth in BC, and some time in Toronto, so those locations felt very real.

Well told personal account of what happened in 2012, and how his life lead up to those events.

We miss you, Hans!