Pros: A beautiful look at what the future could be! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 N.K. Jemisin’s novella Emergency Skin (Forward collection) is told by a “consensus intelligence” implanted in the mind of a soldier. We get to…
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Short Take: “Emergency Skin,” N.K. Jemisin
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Review: “Farm Land: Sentience,” G. Lawrence
Pros: Beautifully drawn Cons: So over-the-top black-and-white; endless sermonizing Rating: 3 out of 5 G. Lawrence’s Farm Land: Sentience (The Farm Land Trilogy Book 1) takes place far in the future, after climate change has drowned most of the land…
Review: “A Country of Ghosts,” Margaret Killjoy
Pros: Excellent work on characters and setting Cons: Pacing; unrealistically idealistic for me Rating: 3 out of 5 Margaret Killjoy’s A Country of Ghosts follows a journalist named Dimos Horacki as he’s embedded at the front of a war. The…
Review: “Earth Alone,” Daniel Aronson
Pros: Interesting start to a military sf story Cons: One big plot hole Rating: 3 out of 5 Daniel Aronson’s Earth Alone: Earthrise Book 1 depicts a dystopian future in which huge centipede-like aliens regularly try to invade earth. They…
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Review: “Abduction,” Robin Cook
Pros: Not much Cons: Cartoonish and full of stereotypes Rating: 1 out of 5 Perry Berg is the president of Benthic Marine, present for one of his company’s drilling projects. Dr. Suzanne Newell is an oceanographer; Donald Fuller is ex-Navy…