Frankly, nothing could have topped last year, with Doctor Who's 60th anniversary AND the second season of my beloved, beautiful, betrayed Our Flag Means Death, and basically just David Tennant doing amazing work everywhere. However, this year was still great! I saw so much good live theater and discovered SO MUCH good music! But I'm …
Book Review | The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
I don’t want this series to be over! The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is the final installment in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series. We find ourselves on the planet Gora, a rather inhospitable place with no native life. It serves merely as a sort of interplanetary truck stop, now that the Galactic Commons has set …
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Book Review | The Tainted Cup
In The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, Dinios Kol is an assistant investigator for the Empire, working with Ana Dolabra, a well-respected but eccentric investigator. They’re called to look into the death of an imperial official, who was killed when a magical contagion of some kind caused a tree to sprout from his chest. …
Book Review | Record of a Spaceborn Few
I’m making such good time with this series! In Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, the third standalone installment in the Wayfarers series, we follow a group of humans living on a spaceship. They’re from the Exodus Fleet, the descendants of the last humans to have left Earth after the planet’s environmental collapse. …
Book Review | A Closed and Common Orbit
I devoured this audiobook in two days. This is the opposite of a problem. In A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, the AI program known as Lovelace faces a new experience when she’s placed into a humanoid body after total system shutdown and reboot. So she finds her way off the ship and …