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Hidden Solace by Karl Drinkwater: A #SciFiMonth Review

By John Folk-Williams

Hidden Solace by Karl Drinkwater

Karl Drinkwater’s Hidden Solace is the third volume of the projected five-novel space opera Lost Solace series. Like its predecessors, Hidden Solace, transforms a familiar scifi trope (here, the prisoner trying to escape from an impossibly isolated and well-defended structure) into something exciting and new. The writing is riveting and intense and kept me going […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, SciFiMonth, Space Opera Tagged With: alien technology, artificial intelligence, freedom, Karl Drinkwater, memory, power, robotic spaceships, sentient beings

10 Novels for My SFF TBR – Summer Edition

By John Folk-Williams

Embertide

Taking on the SFF TBR is like climbing a mountain that keeps growing and expanding as you dig in and inch upward. It’s a little like the problem Sisyphus had with his boulder, but instead of doing the same thing over and over, the path before you keeps changing. It’s full of interesting byways, occasional […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction, Taking on My SciFi TBR Tagged With: Geetha Krishnan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jadie Jang, Jonathan Nevair, Liz Williams, Olga Ravn, Scott Hawkins, T.A. Bruno, Tasha Suri, Xia Jia

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

By John Folk-Williams

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

Gigi Ganguly’s One Arm Shorter Than The Other begins quietly enough in 1986 as a grandfather, Maurice, a resident of Delhi, like all the characters of this beautiful debut novella, wanders in the past of his memory. That habit worries his son James, who thinks dwelling in memories is unhealthy. James feels that his father […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction Tagged With: androids, family, Gigi Ganguly, hopeful future, memory, South Asian fiction, time, time travel

Needle by Linda Nagata (Inverted Frontier Book 3)

By John Folk-Williams

Needle by Linda Nagata (Inverted Frontier Book 3)

Needle is the third book in Linda Nagata’s compelling Inverted Frontier series that began with Edges and continued with Silver. This is an epic story of the search for remnants of human civilizations reaching back from the farthest reach of settlement toward the origin of it all. Urban and the crew of the Dragon encounter […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Space Opera Tagged With: alien minds, consciousness, human survival, Inverted Frontier, Linda Nagata, memory, power

Dark Theory by Wick Welker

By John Folk-Williams

Dark Theory by Wick Welker

Wick Welker’s Dark Theory (the first volume of a series called Dark Law) poses basic questions about what it means to be human in a far-future poisoned world. The story begins in a junkyard where people have to scavenge the means of survival. Two young women, the generous-hearted Lucindi and the hardened and cynical Miree, […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, artificial intelligence, city, consciousness, cyborg, friendship, identity, memory, power, robots, ruined earth

Linda Nagata’s Pacific Storm: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021 Pacific Storm by Linda Nagata

I put off reading Linda Nagata’s Pacific Storm for a while because I was so enamored of her far future epics that I wondered about a nearish-future thriller set in Hawai’i awaiting the arrival of a powerful hurricane. Well, once I got into the story, I couldn’t let go. Pacific Storm has that feel-it-in-yours-bones tension […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: China, climate change, future history, government intrigue, Linda Nagata, politics, surveillance society, thriller

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