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Becky Chambers’ Space Community as the Good Society

By John Folk-Williams

Record of a Spaceborn Few Space Community as Good Society

Becky Chambers takes a real chance in Record of a Spaceborn Few. She sets aside conventional adventure plots to create a convincing human society in space that is actually hopeful. Hopeful, but not easy. From the outset of this novel, third in the Wayfarer series, we are reminded of how fragile life can be on […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: alien life forms, Becky Chambers, good society, hopeful future, ruined earth, space community

Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy: A New Species Emerges

By John Folk-Williams

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler Xenogenesis Trilogy

Prepare for a deep dive into the most intimate details of human-alien contact in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy. Step by step she takes you through the initial encounters between a human, Lilith Iyapo, and her Oankali captors (Dawn), the coming of age of a construct resulting from this union (Adulthood Rites) and the reconciliation […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, apocalypse, colonialism, gender, human emotion, Octavia E. Butler, sexuality, slavery, species, xenogenesis trilogy

The Lost Solace Series by Karl Drinkwater: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Lost Solace, the Solace Series by Karl Drinkwater

Karl Drinkwater starts off his Lost Solace series in a daring way. A deserter named Opal has stolen a ship with an experimental AI, which she names Clarissa, and sets off to a location in deep space. There she finds a mystery ship, a luxury liner abandoned and strangely altered. Could it be the one? […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, family, Karl Drinkwater, lost space ships, neutron stars, rebirth, relationships

The Quantum Evolution by Derek Künsken: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Quantum Magician Book 1 of the Quantum Evolution by Derek Kunsken

Derek Künsken’s series, The Quantum Evolution, so far consisting of two novels (The Quantum Magician and The Quantum Garden) is a brilliant space opera that probes the depths of a future human nature engineered to produce new subspecies. And they are wild, at times repulsive, at times capable of incredible breakthroughs in knowledge or massive […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, Derek Kunsken, genetic engineering, quantum reaility, space opera, The Quantum Evolution, time travel, wormholes

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