23 March, 2022

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

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The Light Brigade is one of the best pieces of military science fiction I have ever read. It uses military science fiction as a base–it in...
19 March, 2022

The Postman by David Brin

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From the title I thought I was in for a romance, or a novel about the importance of lines of communication, or a period piece from the 50s...
06 March, 2022

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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  Around when Wired magazine was founded to appeal to fans of Cyberpunk, in the early 90s, two people used novels to satirize the genre an...
18 February, 2022

Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

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This is a great science fiction novel and if anybody placed it alongside the all-time top tier of Military Science Fiction, I wouldn’t nece...
11 February, 2022

Quarter, Half, and Full Share by Nathan Lowell

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Quarter Share This book works for me, and that also surprises me, because the narrative structure here follows the episodic, vignette sty...
31 January, 2022

Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos

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It's no secret that I enjoy military science fiction now and again: the fast-paced plots of pulp fiction sometimes act as predictable ...
30 April, 2020

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

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This story strolls from strength to strength. It strikes me as similar in some ways to The Fifth Season in that both stories feature a na...
28 April, 2020

Provenance by Ann Leckie

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This book focuses in on the life of one character—her family struggles, her difficulties with money, her hairbrained scheme to jailbreak h...
28 January, 2020

Chanur Series by CJ Cherryh

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This series has five novels that tell three interconnected stories: the first book, the middle three (published as three books, but they...
11 November, 2019

Conspirator by CJ Cherryh

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This is the first book of the fourth trilogy of the Foreigner Series, book 10 in the series. Okay, we’ve wrapped up the coup, right? Bren ...