Content tagged with “science-fiction” under “My Library”

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Artificial Condition
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 17, 2022
Words
185

“This is the second book of The Murderbot Diaries. Again, it’s a novella – only 149 pages. This picks up right after the first book. In this installment, she (1) helps a group of scientists get some research back, and (2) investigates a very bad episode from her past. In this sense, it’s like a…”

The Book of Strange New Things
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 3, 2017
Words
144

“I don’t know where to go with this one. I read it on a recommendation from a friend. It’s…religious science fiction? Is that a thing? The basic idea is that a pastor goes to another planet to try to convert an alien race to Christianity. The author has no history of Christian writing (I don’t…”

Delta-V
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 17, 2019
Words
371

“Daniel Saurez writes about the future…but not too far into the future. His books are all about the world in 10-15 years, which is ‘the future,’ technically, but not so far that they’re unrelatable. Saurez writes about a future state that feels very real, and he designs it in such a way that you…”

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 16, 2021
Words
308

“(This is the book that was the inspiration for the 1982 movie Blade Runner . The association is very loose, through. The movie and the book have little in common.) This is ‘philosophical science fiction.’ It describes a modified reality which raises all sorts of interesting questions. The setting…”

Dune
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 30, 2020
Words
219

“This is a classic of science fiction, clearly. By some accounts, it’s the greatest sci-fi novel ever written. I had been meaning to tackle it for years, but this took on increased urgency with the new film coming out (it was supposed to be this year, but the COVID pandemic has pushed back the…”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 24, 2018
Words
65

“While it was interesting to see the source of a lot of pop culture references that I’ve grown up with, the book itself is awful. Sorry. It’s an attempt at absurd parody that feels like it was made up as Adams went along and was never edited. It hardly makes sense, isn’t funny, and it took every…”

The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 5, 2016
Words
483

“so, here’s the thing: I shouldn’t have read this book. More importantly, I should have stopped reading this book when it became clear that it would never make sense. But I didn’t. Back in the 80s, I was a fan of a card game called ‘Illuminati’ by Steve Jackson Games. I was reading about it one day,…”

Interface
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 3, 2017
Words
61

“An entertaining novel about a corrupted political campaign in the then-future year of 1996. A political candidate gets a microchip implanted in his head, which is used to control his actions while at the same time interpreting real-time feedback from the public. Easy reading with a solid amount of…”

The Kaiju Preservation Society
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 25, 2023
Words
214

“This is a fun, lightweight science fiction novel about an alternate Earth with ‘kaiju’ exist – essentially large monsters, like Godzilla. It’s a lot like Jurassic Park. (‘Kaiju’ is a Japanese word for ‘strange beast.’ It’s become a genre for Japanese monster movies.) The author provides some great…”

Manna
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 9, 2014
Words
116

“The first three chapters which lay out the scenario of mass worker displacement by robots are quite interesting. After that, the book descends into bad science fiction and presents many fundamentally objectionable and downright creepy ideas as obviously wonderful and desirable. The book was written…”

The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 3, 2025
Words
380

“I bought this book because I went to Montauk. I had previously only known it as the setting of a couple episodes of Friends , but then I took Annie on a work trip to The Hamptons , and we spent a day with some friends in Montauk, visiting the lighthouse and doing the tourist stuff there. Off in the…”

New York 2140
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 16, 2017
Words
29

“ Didn’t love it. Was confused for most of it. Lots of characters and some of the summation at the end didn’t make sense. Additionally, a lot of political moralizing. ”

Pandora’s Star
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 18, 2020
Words
87

“The definition of an epic sci-fi novel. This a long read, and prepare yourself for the second one, because the first one leaves a lot of questions unanswered. There are a ton of different story threads going on independently, and they don’t come together neatly in the end. It’s almost a…”

Prey
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 6, 2017
Words
27

“ Another page-turner. More horror than science, unlike Airframe . Truly scary in places, with a nihilistic bent. Got me wondering if this is something that could actually happen. ”

Ready Player One
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 14, 2016
Words
286

“If you were a geek in the 80s, your book has arrived. The author is one year younger than me, and I half-suspect he was simply trying to cram as many 80s geek references into a single book as he could. The result is insanely fun. Everything is there: Wargames, Dragon Magazine, text adventures on…”

Rogue Protocol
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 1, 2023
Words
169

“I keep buying these Murderbot books for some reason. I tend to get them on Kindle when I travel. They’re short. You can read one in 90 minutes. They remind me all the world of a primetime action show. Every episode has some self-contained story that will never come up again, and every episode moves…”

The Three-Body Problem
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 4, 2023
Words
490

“First, this is not a standalone novel. It’s part one of three, and it ends completely unfinished. Second, I bought this because of Barack Obama. Seriously – I saw it on the shelf of a book and gaming store in Stockholm, and it had a praise quote from Obama on the cover. I thought, ‘Has a president…”

The War of the Worlds
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 14, 2014
Words
188

“Simply a great read. A very fast-moving account of what a Martian invasion might look like at the turn of the 20th century (it was written in 1898). The author captures the subtle movement from confusion to outright terror and panic extremely well. When the first Martian cylinder lands, no one…”

The World According to Star Wars
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 17, 2023
Words
249

“This book is odd but lovable. I can’t imagine how it got written. It’s about Star Wars . But not about any particular aspect of Star Wars . Rather, it’s a meditation about the…ideas (?) of Star Wars ? The book was written right after The Force Awakens was released. That was the first film in the…”