Category: Reviews

Review: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

  • On: 22nd Aug 2023
  • Category: Reviews

The third entry in The Murderbot Diaries series, Rogue Protocol, is another short and straightforward story centred on Murderbot, the media-obsessed cyborg. We continue the story shortly after the events of Artificial Condition, with Murderbot still lying low, masquerading as an augmented human...

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Review: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

  • On: 8th Jul 2023
  • Category: Reviews

The second entry in The Murderbot Diaries series, Artificial Condition, is another short and simple story centred on the socially awkward, soap-opera-loving cyborg, Murderbot. The story picks up where All Systems Red left off, with Murderbot seeking transport off-world ...

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Review: Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken Macleod

  • On: 30th Jun 2023
  • Category: Reviews

The first entry in the Lightspeed trilogy, Beyond the Hallowed Sky is billed as a hard sci-fi space opera; I found it to be a bit of a mixed bag (in more ways than one) and would describe it as more of a near-future geopolitical sci-fi. Let’s get into the up and downs of my thoughts on the story...

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Review: Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • On: 11th May 2023
  • Category: Reviews

Children of Memory is the third entry in the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I adored both books one & two, but I really struggled with this third book. The narrative format is very different from its predecessors, and when it comes time to reveal what has been happening all this time, the answer is underwhelming, and personally, I found it to be quite unsatisfactory.

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