Category: Science Fiction

Title: Wool Author: Hugh Howey Date Purchased: 10/24/2017Price Paid: $2.11Date Finished: 6/5/2021Rating: 4/5 Back in the good old days of the Book Club, we used to tease my good friend Ben about his selections. “Hey Ben, which dystopian novel did you pick for us this time?” This good-natured ribbing was brought about because, well, Ben likes a good dystopian novel. One of his picks was […]

Title: Angel Station Author: Walter Jon Williams Date Purchased: 10/5/2017 Price Paid: $1.05 Date Finished: 5/19/2021 Rating: 3.5/5 One of the more interesting choices that a science fiction author can make revolves around the use of language. If we look at this through a very wide lens, we might be able to boil it down to two choices: speak of things in the same way […]

Title: The End of All Things Author: John Scalzi Date Purchased: 2/12/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 3/14/2017 Rating: 4/5 Now that I’ve finally finished the Old Man’s War series, I’m left wondering if I would have felt the same about these books had I read them all at once. I have a recollection of loving the first book and quite enjoying the second, which […]

Title: The Human Division Author: John Scalzi Date Purchased: 2/12/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 3/9/2021 Rating: 4/5 As I progress through this project, I’m learning a lot about myself and my reading. In a recent post I spoke about how I now realize that I enjoy science fiction way more than I thought I did. I really get engrossed in the stories and something […]

Title: Zoë’s Tale Author: John Scalzi Date Purchased: 2/12/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 3/4/2021 Rating: 3/5 The idea of telling a story twice from two different points of view is one that’s been stuck in my brain for a long time. As a teenager I worked at a record store and one of my coworkers was constantly jotting down ideas in a book. One […]

Title: The Last Colony Author: John Scalzi Date Purchased: 2/11/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 2/28/2021 Rating: 4/5 It’s interesting how a project like this can uncover things that, for whatever reason, just never quite surfaces in a person’s consciousness. While I could be talking about my book buying habits or the fact that once I start a series I need to finish it, I’m […]