Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
A happy family man is ripped away to an alternate reality where he's an award-winning scientist. (★★)
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Here’s a neat article on the predictions science fiction makes about technology . I remember once reading an Octavia E. Butler book that correctly forecast “screenphones”, while also predicting we’d have FTL travel to Alpha Centauri by now. Such interesting hits and misses! 📚
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Second part of an epic fantasy series set during the end of the world. (★★★)
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Two working-class families, the Pickleses and the Lambs, move from Geraldton to a run-down huge house on Cloud Street in Perth in 1944. This gritty and earthy novel follows their families' highs and lows over the next 20 years. (★½)
Break the Dark by Cheryl Lawson
Only four are left at the damaged Rubicon base, battling to survive as their technology breaks down around them. The rest of Rubicon's survivors have been enslaved elsewhere on Mars, mining diamonds for the tyrannical boss of New Dawn. (★★)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The first part of an epic fantasy trilogy, set during the beginning of the end of the world. (★★★★★)
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
An emotional space opera following a talented tech who was raised by an AI, and an AI now dealing with life in an artificial body. (★★★★★)
Next month it’s my dad’s birthday, and given his strong interest in mathematics and the fact he’s been studying Greek for three years, I’ve placed an order for Logicomix (the Greek edition) for him 😊 Shipping to Australia is expensive, but it just seems like the perfect gift!
It’s been so long since I’ve actually read a whole book at this point, I think because I started one I’m not really into, and I keep casting about for things to do that are not reading it. Time to start reading Becky Chambers’ A Closed and Common Orbit to break the cycle. 🚀
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.