We’re one week (and some change) into SciFi Month, so it’s time to dock, refuel and read the reports from the crew! It’s round-up time.
First and foremost, let’s look at who’s laid out their plans for the month ahead with some intro posts!
- Emma at Words and Peace
- Wandering Lynn
- Stephen at Reading Freely
- Nancy Elin
- Renay
- Jinjer at The Intrepid Angeleno
- Lauren at Always Me
- Janette at Witchy Reading
- Anouk at Time for Tales and Tea
- Annemieke at A Dance With Books
- Dear Geek Place (that’s me!)
- Rachael at The Green Tea Librarian
- Charity at Imperfect Happiness
- Starr at Pages and Procrastination
- imyril at There’s Always Room For One More
- Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy
- Nicky at The Bibliophibian
- Avery at Wayfarer of Worlds
Reviews
Nancy Elin highlighted three subgenres/tropes of SF, with bookish examples: Artificial Intelligence (La Grande Interruption by Sybille Grimbert), Feminist Dystopia (Ce qui dort sous le camelia by Claudie O. Wetterwald) and Science Fantasy (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe).
Here at Dear Geek Place, I took my first proper dive into Star Trek: The Next Generation – my Season 1 reviews of “The Encounter at Farpoint” and “The Naked Now” are up so far.
Stephen at Reading Freely gave us a pair of Arthur C. Clarke reviews for “All The Time In The World” and “Deep Range”, before venturing on to The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang, Delta-V by Daniel Suarez, The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy reviewed Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi, and Emma at Words and Peace reviewed How Great Science Fiction Works by Gary K. Wolfe.
Janette at Witchy Reading and Laura Tisdall both reviewed As You Wake, Break The Shell by Becky Chambers, with Laura also reviewing Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel.
Jinjer at The Intrepid Angeleno reviewed Neighborhood Watch: After the EMP by EE Isherwood and Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert E. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee.
Wandering Lynn reviewed When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi and City by Clifford D. Simak.
At Always Me, Lauren’s Sunday Funday post highlighted the opening episodes of The Umbrella Academy season 4, along with Exiles by Mason Coile.
And finally, Jackson at Reforming Thoughts reviewed Pierce Brown’s Red Rising saga – in two parts!
Whew! That’s a lot of reading, which is what we love to see at SciFi Month HQ! Keep up the good work, cadets, and we’ll see what you come up with in the next round of Mission Logs. Speaking of which, don’t forget to check out imyril’s own Log covering your lists, recs, read-alongs and random fun!
ART CREDIT
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)
Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Detail from an image of the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Use of this image does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by NASA.
Text: Dolly Parton. RIP, Queen.
