science fiction
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Nothing needed saying. After a while, the silence stopped feeling like a silence that needed filling. Book 1 in the Dock Meridian series. Saoirse Vanthoorn is a mechanical engineer, going from job to job on different space docks. This has been her routine for many years. But when she arrives at Dock Meridian, she finds…
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“Do you ever wonder,” she said, “if the system is actually broken. Or if it’s working exactly as designed.” Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Book review of A Shallow Heart by James Badman, releasing today, Oct 2, 2026. Many thanks to the author for this ARC. Set in a possibly not so distant future, A Shallow Heart is a…
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In recognition of the fact that I have way too many ebooks just sitting around, doing whatever the digital equivalent to gathering dust on the shelf is, I’ve decided to introduce Sunday Shelf Exploration, which is what I plan to call it when I take a look at my ebook collection through a scavenger hunt,…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
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Many thanks to @taherasplace for tagging me in the One Word Title challenge by Dee @chapter1.page1 for the #oldskoolchallengeclub. I had a look through my ebook collection and came up with these 10 books. Alice by Gary Gautier From Goodreads: Alice’s commune seems a small hippie utopia in a dreamlike forest, but the utopian surface…
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Prime Intelligence. PI. A mind above all others, indifferent to human needs and unburdened by our weaknesses. Its only concern is optimisation. Ad/PR. Many thanks to J.R. Mann for this ebook. What happens when AI decides humanity is the biggest threat to its continued existence? London 2039. More and more people have been replaced by…
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“Nobody should be barred from necessities or comforts just because they don’t have the right number next to their name.” A Prayer for the Crown-Shy continues where A Psalm for the Wild-Built left off, with Dex, the non-binary tea monk acting as a guide for Mosscap the sentient robot, as the two of them travel…
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“If we want change, or good fortune, or solace, we have to create it for ourselves.” Solarpunk is an optimistic view of the future, envisioning a world where people have learned to live in harmony with nature, emphasising sustainability and humanity. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a novella that serves as a perfect example…
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She could have made herself small and unthreatening. She could have hovered over people’s shoulders like a pet or a children’s toy, as was the fashion among older shipminds. But she’d lived through a war, an uprising and a famine, and she was done with diminishing herself to spare the feelings of others. The Shadow’s…
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Ad/PR. April was a month filled with great reads. From cozy mysteries to horror, from sci fi to historical fiction, from ebooks to physical copies to audiobooks, from ARCs and review copies to Read Christie 2026 and the A-Z Cozy Mystery Challenge, I read my way through murders and mysteries, celebrated Terry Pratchett Day and…
