Title: Shift Author: Hugh Howey Date Purchased: 11/27/2017 Price Paid: $2.11Date Finished: 6/13/2021Rating: 3/5 In previous reviews I’ve spoken about how challenging it can be to write the middle book of a trilogy. You’re trying to balance the momentum of the first book with new advancement of a story. It’s not always done well, and I’m surprised some trilogies even see a book three with […]

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 […]