Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
I got Lost Solace from Karl Drinkwater when he was giving freebies out on his website. I apologised at the time for probably not reading it straight away. But then the Goodreads Space Opera group picked it for November. I
Queen of Chaos by Sabrina Chase is the third and last in the Sequoyah trilogy. I thoroughly enjoyed the first, and left rather too long a gap before reading book 2 last year. Thus I planned to read this early
CassaFire is today’s book review. This is the second in the series, which started with CassaStar, which I reviewed a few years back. Then I jumped to the last in the series on publication, so now I’m on catch-up. This
Common Ground and other stories by Mackey Chandler, and Xeelee Vengeance, by Stephen Baxter. Both selected as Books of the Month sometime this year in the Goodreads Space Opera Group. Both good reads. One short and funny, one long and
Project Hail Mary is probably the best science fiction book I’ve read. Er, what? Yes. I got it from the library before Christmas and didn’t get around to it in time for the Goodreads Space Opera group book of the
Space Opera. A book title, not necessarily a genre, although Space Opera is definitely space opera. I popped it on my list as I read the blurb when it came out. Then I saw it in my library… and brought
Among the Stars is a space opera theme anthology from Fiction River. There aren’t many stories in this anthology, compared with say, Rhonda Parrish‘s or Third Flatiron, or even the IWSG, so it’s a quick read of quick reads. This
The Galaxy, And the Ground Within is the fourth (and final) book in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series. You can read my reviews of the others here: Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record
The Long Way Home was the Goodreads Space Opera Group’s Book of the Month for August. I haven’t read many of the Group’s choices; they’d mentioned it before, so it was already on my list. That made it suitable for
Reclamation was one of a group of books I got in a Storybundle. If you haven’t discovered that yet, it’s a great way of discovering new writers. Check it out! I’m seriously behind with my reading at the moment, and
CassaStar had been on my reading list for over four years. It has probably been on my Kindle for just as long. I’m trying to work back on some of these almost certainly free copies that I acquired in the
Sassinak was listed for one of the Space Opera Group’s books of the month for April, and unusually I got it read within the timescale. It’s another for my SpaceTime Reading Challenge – which seems to be going rather well
Tourist Trap is a science fiction adventure by Sue Ann Bowling, who was one of my blogging friends in Alaska. I’ve been meaning to read it for a few years now, after reading Homecoming just after Sue Ann died, and
Restructure: that’s the subject for my second postcard from camp this year. As you know, I’m editing Curved Space to Corsair so that I can send it to be properly edited. At last. This is the second in the Viridian
Chuck’s back, and he asked for Space Opera today. I’ve cheated slightly, as I considered doing some more backstory for the Perihelix women, and didn’t think I had the time. Doing a whole space opera in 1000 words is tough,