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Blade – Inverted Frontier 4 by Linda Nagata

By John Folk-Williams

Blade Inverted Frontier 4

In previous novels of the Inverted Frontier series (Edges, Silver and Needle), Linda Nagata often posed the question of what it took to retain humanity in the face of alien power. In Blade Inverted Frontier 4 (out of a projected 5 volume series) she confronts as never before the potential of human destructiveness. Is it […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, fallen world, Linda Nagata, love, power, relationships, spaceships

Locus Ballot 2023: Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels and More

By John Folk-Williams

Locus Ballot 2023

Time to pick from the long list of nominees for the Locus ballot 2023, covering work published in 2022. It’s a big list, since it represents the consensus judgment of a large group of reviewers at Locus magazine, and I can’t pretend to have read it all. I think part of the purpose of such […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alastair Reynolds, Kelly Barnhill, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Maurice Broaddus, Nicola Griffith, R.F. Kuang, Simon Jimenez, Tasha Suri

9 Favorite Science Fiction Novels of 2022

By John Folk-Williams

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

End-of-year time seems to slow down a bit from rest-of-the-year time, and that enforced (relative) rest gives me a break to look back for my favorite science fiction novels of 2022. I have to say that the current period, imho, eclipses past golden ages of SFF and redefines standards in a fundamental way. There is […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aimee Pokwatka, Alastair Reynolds, Gigi Ganguly, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Maurice Broaddus, Olga Ravn, Tochi Onyebuchi

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

My 10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021

By John Folk-Williams

10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021 Pacific Storm by Linda Nagata

Is it just me or do others also feel that 2021 was an amazing year for great science fiction and fantasy? I don’t do that many list posts, but it’s especially interesting to look back over a year’s reading to put things in perspective. And yes, I do believe this was an incredible year. My […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Ada Hoffman, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alastair Reynolds, Arkady Martine, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Nnedi Okorafor, Premee Mohammed, Susanna Clarke

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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