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Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds

By John Folk-Williams

Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds

Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds is a key book of short stories for understanding many aspects of the Revelation Space universe. The novels and stories within that universe follow human settlement of many star systems over several centuries. In the course of this future history, humans adapt in many ways, especially through the use of […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, consciousness, love, memory, neural network, Revelation Space, space colonies, spaceships, transhuman

A Storm of Wings – A Novel of Viriconium by M. John Harrison

By John Folk-Williams

A Storm of Wings Viriconium

From the beginning of M. John Harrison’s A Storm of Wings (1980), you know you’re entering a shattered world with a diminishing human presence, but it is also a dazzling world captured in densely brilliant and beautiful prose. This second novel of the Viriconium series caught me by surprise. The first, The Pastel City (1971), […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, city, civilization, consciousness, human survival, M. John Harrison, memory, rebirth

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

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I love a space adventure that lures me on with the promise of revealing the fundamental nature of a fictional universe, preferably through a dazzling experience that only the hero has earned the right to have. Well, no one can really explain the nature of everything, at least not very clearly, so far, but Adrian […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien life forms, alien minds, altered minds, communication, consciousness, reality, space colonies, universe

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

Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen (Part 2 of The Graven) – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen

Essa Hansen’s Azura Ghost, second book in The Graven series, marks an enormous step up from her already impressive debut, Nophek Gloss. This new story takes us deeper into the mysterious multiverse of the Graven, an ancient race of vast accomplishments that disappeared ages ago but left numerous traces both in architectural and technological remnants […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera, Taking on My SciFi TBR Tagged With: adventure, alien life forms, consciousness, family, memory, multiverse, power, space opera, transcendence

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