This may be my new favourite book. No, it IS my new favourite book. I had previously read McDonald’s Luna: New Moon and enjoyed it, but there was something simplistic, almost juvenile about that book, especially when compared to the mature, meticulously researched masterpiece that is The Dervish House. The novel is set in a…
Logically, I shouldn’t have liked this book as much as I did. It’s fairly standard military science fiction of the hard boiled variety, focused on one Lt. James Shelley: squad leader of an exoskeleton wearing, perpetually video conferenced, grenade chucking bunch of yahoos. Nothing too unusual there, right? And yet somehow, the damn thing hooked…
In the name of transparency, I should divulge that I read this book solely because it was nominated for a (2017) Hugo. Ninefox is a military science fiction novel that, in my opinion, desperately wants to have the word Ancillary in its title but narrowly misses all the key notes that Anne Leckie hit so…
No, this is not the tale of an unwanted threesome, but rather a hard SF novel that also happens to be fairly bonkers. Imagine an alien invasion movie, but substitute probe-wielding green men for a race with the societal persona of a dried up and somewhat dickish university math professor. I mean, these guys literally dehydrate themselves…
