Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Sci-Fi

  • How I Live Now

    I don’t often read YA fiction because of all the adult fiction I haven’t read yet. Last year I accidentally read some and wasn’t sure how to judge it. I…


  • The Player of Games

    The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks is the first of his science fiction novels that I read. At the end of last year I read two of his…


  • Tiger of Talmare

    Tiger of Talmare by Nina Scott is a novella that I stumbled across while I was browsing Amazon for contemporary science fiction written by women. Mel is a space pirate…


  • The Hidden Empire

    The Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson is the first book in The Saga of Seven Suns series which runs to seven books. It’s a meaty space opera of around…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Line of Polity

    Line of Polity is the second in the Ian Cormac series by Neal Asher, which is sci-fi spy thriller, basically James Bond in space. A rogue scientist is experimenting with…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Surface Detail

    Continuing on with wrapping up the last few book reviews for the 100 books in 2011 challenge we have Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks. Lededje Ybreq is an indentured…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Winter Song

    Winter Song by Colin Harvey is the third book I’ve read from small press Angry Robot. As I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of them and have paid for none of them…


  • 100 Books in 2011: All the Windwracked Stars

    All the Windwracked Stars by Elizabeth Bear is a bit genre-busting. It is heavily grounded in Norse mythology with liberal sprinklings of sci-fi, steampunk and high fantasy. After Ragnarok, of…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: Gridlinked

    Gridlinked by Neal Asher is essentially James Bond in a space opera setting. Ian Cormac has been an agent for Earth Central Services for thirty years and has been linked to…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: Aces High

    Aces High is the second in a shared world series edited by George R. R. Martin. It’s alternate history sci-fi which takes the 1950s as its jumping off point and…


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