John Scalzi I started off really liking the premise, and still did going forward. But the writing was just insufferable. This style, I later found, is something that John Scalzi is known for. The characters are one-dimensional beings with non-stop banter appreciated by 12 year olds. The protagonists laugh in the face of life-threatening danger,Continue reading “The Kaiju Preservation Society”
Category Archives: Science Fiction
UPGRADE
BLAKE CROUCH I was very eager to read Upgrade when I knew the book was coming out. I had set a reminder on my calendar months in advance so that I could start reading it immediately. And it was totally anti-climatic for me. Upgrade was clearly a rushed book, with little to no rewritingContinue reading “UPGRADE”
PROJECT HAIL MARY
ANDY WEIR★★★★✰ The book starts off well enough, a man wakes up connected to various tubes to every orifice in his body with no memory of who he is; and also finds two dead people in the room connected to similar tubes. Through ingenious experiments he deduces that he is on a spaceship and triesContinue reading “PROJECT HAIL MARY”