Category Archives: Science Fiction

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Posted on September 13, 2024 by bseat

Time travel plot lines are always a bit dicey. It is easy for an author to get caught up in the ‘how” and the rules of time travel and the plot line can stay focused on those things rather than … Continue reading →

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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Posted on November 5, 2021 by bseat

Lost in space, overcoming enormous obstacles and always duct taping something together in order to survive. Those are the things I think of when I see a book by Andy Weir, and Project Hail Mary is no exception. When Ryland … Continue reading →

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 57)

Posted on April 30, 2021 by bseat

The year is 2045. All the things that humanity worried about; climate change, eco destruction and gross inequalities between the haves and have nots, have come to fruition. Earth is a dying planet and the only escape is OASIS, a … Continue reading →

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Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 55)

Posted on April 9, 2021 by bseat

I am not really a short story person. I like long novels where I can engage the characters and the end comes after a long circuitous path. Then I read an article where they interviewed famous people and asked about … Continue reading →

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All Systems Red by Martha Wells 9 (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 38)

Posted on December 11, 2020 by bseat

One of my friends, a librarian, recommended these books by Wells which are collectively known as The Murderbot Diaries. Somehow I never got around to reading them. Then when the pandemic began and she recommended them again, I listened and … Continue reading →

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SEVENEVES by Neal Stephenson

Posted on April 26, 2019 by bseat

Neal Stephenson intrigues me. When I read Cryptonomicon I was totally hooked by both the subject of cryptography and the thriller/suspense plot. But then the Baroque Cycle came out- a three part series about the history of science and philosophy. … Continue reading →

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Artemis by Andy Weir

Posted on January 11, 2019 by bseat

The Martian was one of my favorite books in 2015, so when I saw Andy Weir had written a new book called Artemis, I was intrigued and a bit uncertain whether it could possibly measure up to his first book. … Continue reading →

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The Outsider by Stephen King

Posted on December 14, 2018 by bseat

Stephen King is both prolific and eclectic. From 11/22/63 which explores the assassination of John F. Kennedy to some of his classic horror stories like The Shining to the The Dark Tower series which is set in a post apocalyptic world, … Continue reading →

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The Power by Naomi Alderman

Posted on January 12, 2018 by bseat

Just this week Oprah made a speech at the Golden Globes Award Ceremony that grabbed headlines all over the world. In it she envisioned a different kind of world for women and   said: So I want all the girls watching … Continue reading →

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Speak: A novel by Louisa Hall

Posted on November 4, 2016 by bseat

What makes us human? What is memory? What is the difference between the human mind and Artificial Intelligence? Interesting questions to raise as we be come more and more dependent on Siri (and the like) to manage our lives or … Continue reading →

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