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Brian W. Aldiss: Non-Stop (Paperback, 1976, Pan Science Fiction)

Roy Complain lives in a culturally-primitive tribe in which curiosity is discouraged and life is …

Fine, but felt incomplete

Non-stop has a good premise has too many places where there are logical gaps. I have no way to describe this without spoilers, so I won't try - I just feel like greater depth of character development & more backstory could have elevated it from good to great.

reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tordotcom)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

Love it!

Immediately off to buy the rest of the series. This is one of my personal favorite style of story, and Martha Wells does a brilliant job of it.

Sensible, rational sci-fi and a perspective that speaks to me. Top marks all around, and more please!

Wil Mccarthy: Bloom (EBook, Del Rey/Random House)

Mycora: Technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating, and endlessly voracious. In the year 2106, these microscopic machine/creatures …

Swing and a miss

A well-written story, but a trash ending. As in, not bad, just a cheap storytelling gimmick that felt thrown together to meet a deadline.

The premise was excellent and had so much potential, but Bloom truly failed to make the most of it. Character development was excellent and made me care about everyone involved but that only made the ending more painful.

Greg Bear: Hull Zero Three (Hardcover, 2010, Orbit)

A good premise, but a difficult read

Much of the book is told by characters who don't know what is going on, but the result is unfortunately so disjointed and baffling that I wound up clueless to the end.

It shares this with Wool, but in the end Wool executed it better and I enjoyed that book more.

Hull Zero Three lost the thread enough times that by the end I was just glad it was over.

Scott Sigler: Mount Fitz Roy (Paperback, 2021, Empty Set Entertainment)

Good enough, but Earthcore was superior

A solid follow-up to Earthcore, but like so many sequels before it, it is really tough to try to beat the original.

Earthcore set the bar really high, and while the new topics explored were a nice change of pace it didn't grip the way Earthcore did.

Regardless, it IS still worth your time.