A day at the beach sounds pretty damn good right about now. I don’t know about you, but where I am there’s currently a heat wave. What would you rather deal with: extreme heat, or aliens?
Continue readingBook Review: Black Tide
Tag: science fiction
Book Review: Dead Silence
I am, once again, screaming incoherently about a book because it was so incredible, I HAVE NO WORDS!! Fans of space horror, you need to pre-order this one RIGHT NOW!
Continue readingReview: A Psalm for the Wild-built
Never have it ever read such a cozy sci-fi book! Some folks in book club said A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers felt like a warm hug, and others said it was similar to the feels you get watching a Pixar movie. I agree with both sentiments!
Continue readingReview: Half Life
If you had the option to clone yourself, would you? I know, it sounds wild, but having two versions of yourself means you could do and be so much more, right? Well, that’s what Lucille Harper, the main character in Half Life by Lillian Clark, thinks. But what we want isn’t always what we get.
Review: Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
“When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion—or something else entirely.”
In need of some sci-fi but don’t have the time to commit to a thick book full of world-building and character development? Have no fear, because Nine Last Days on Planet Earth has both of those things, and packs it all into a gut-punching 42 pages. That’s right, this short story is absolutely incredible.
Summer Reading List
July is finally here, which means it’s time to kick off my summer reading! I know it’s felt like summer for a few weeks already, but to me, summer will always be July and August; it’s one of those things from being a student that I just can’t shake. And making summer reading lists has always been something I’ve loved doing.
Review: Space Cat
In my last review I talked about my love for dinosaurs, but I also really love space and cats. So what could be better than a cat that goes to space? Well, nothing!
Happy Towel Day!
Review: Sleeping Giants
I managed to find some time over the holidays to read a couple new books, but one of them was far more compelling than the others. I’m talking about Sleeping Giants, a debut novel (and the first in what will become a series) by Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel.
World Book Day!
Happy World Book Day!
I am terrible at blogging! But whatever, less time spent writing about books means more time reading books, right? Right!
In celebration of World Book Day (which should really be every day), I shall share with you all my favourite book of 2016 (so far).
Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins
Gold Fame Citrus is probably one of the best sci-fi novels I’ve read in a while. I usually like my sci-fi full of aliens, adventures through space and complicated scientific theories that I only kind of understand (or at least pretend to understand), but this book is on a whole new level. It’s science fiction in a new way that I had never considered before. Imagine if an extreme period of climate change and ecological decay, predicted to take tens of thousands of years, was sped up and happened in the span of roughly 10-15 years.
What happens when the state of California, and its surrounding areas, are completely dried up, and everyone is forced to move to the east coast if they want any chance of survival? What happens to the people who decide to stick it out and forage for food, live off the land, and become one with the desert?
That’s what the two main characters, Luz and Ray, decide to do. Luz and Ray have a complicated relationship, but it’s beautiful. They only have each other. Their situation is clearly not ideal, but they take care of one another and always share their rationed cola.
After finding a toddler, clearly neglected by her caregivers, they decide to try and make it east to start new lives for themselves. But crossing a desert, which has already swallowed up an entire mountain range, is not easy. Especially when you get caught up with a group of people who truly believe that the desert chose them; they also may or may not realize that they’re in a cult.
Gold Fame Citrus is a harrowing story, but Watkins presents it with beautiful prose. I recommend reading this book if you’re looking for an original story packed with emotions.
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