This is a fictionalized memoir of Chesbro's life. To me it was an interesting read but the narrator's (author's) emotional distance made it rough going for me at times so I often set it aside for a while (thus the 4+ years to complete). The sections about teaching in the ARK unit were the most interesting to me but they also displayed a LOT of emotional distancing (which was likely needed in the context of a youth psychiatric correction unit)
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Jingo by Terry Pratchett
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- …
Roy Adams rated The Mercy of Gods: 4 stars
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about …
Roy Adams rated Plan for the Worst: 5 stars
Roy Adams rated Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 215: 4 stars
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 215 by Emily Taylor, Neil Clarke, Wole Talabi, and 8 others (Clarkesworld, #215)
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix …
Roy Adams rated Ajax Penumbra 1969: 5 stars
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee. It was first released …
Roy Adams rated Escape Velocity: 4 stars
Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo
Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location …
Roy Adams rated Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction: 5 stars
Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi
A great mix of short stories
Roy Adams reviewed Prism: a memoir as fiction by George C. Chesbro
Memoir as fiction
3 stars
Roy Adams rated Prism: a memoir as fiction: 4 stars
Roy Adams rated The Helm of Midnight: 5 stars
Roy Adams started reading The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories by T. H. White
Picked this up at the Black Cat bookstore in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Roy Adams reviewed Skye Object 3270a by Linda Nagata
Young Adult novel in the Nanotech Succession series
5 stars
Story about Skye at Deception Well. A good story about her and her other 14 / 15 year old friends. Introduces some of the history of humanity and the technology from the Nanotech Succession series.