CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Richard Ayrault is a major player (a stockholder) with Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company. The company has begun the process of tilting the Earth’s axis so that it might be more useful to the most people on the planet. With this already well underway, the adventurous men decide they should travel to some of Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK In the course of interstellar colonization, humans discover the L’Vrai – another race rapidly expanding their own presence in the galaxy. It’s important to make contact and hopefully prevent a costly war or even genocide. There are ‘tamers’ – the front line soldiers sent to meet the L’Vrai head on; but it Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Nevia is a planet many light years away from Earth. The planet is running out of iron – an essential source of energy for the aquatic inhabitants. The Nevians have developed technology that can pull the iron out of just about anything … including human blood. The Nevians attack an unsuspecting Earth Continue reading

CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite, working authors, and has been since I started reading his work in the late 1980’s. It’s nice to see that his older work is being reissued to be found by new audiences or re-discovered and re-enjoyed by those of us who’ve read it before. Continue reading

Oh, boy, do I love this series! Nadya is a girl we have met in this world/series before.  In Beneath the Sugar Sky she was introduced as The Drowned Girl who was one of Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children’s ‘long-timers.’ Now we get Nadya’s story. In Beneath the Sugar Sky we learned that Nadya, abandoned by her Russian mother Continue reading

From waaaay back in my ARC queue… Sabrina, Jackie, and Mandy are your typical, modern women who love to get together and catch up on what’s happening in their lives. Right now they are talking about Callum and Jacob, two men who’ve caught their eyes – not just for their looks, but because something seems Continue reading