Childhoods End – Arthur C. Clarke The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city–intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify Earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, Read more…
Clay’s Ark (The Patternist #3) – Octavia E. Butler In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic—unless someone can stop it Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one Read more…
Vicarious – Rhett C. Bruno The real world is only where you breathe… In High Earth, entertainment is everything. Virtual Worlds. Games. Steaming shows. Simulations—there’s something for everybody. You don’t ever even have to leave your home. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis: Live, a reality show that pushes Read more…
Elsewhere – Dean Koontz Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Southern California. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Read more…
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1) – Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and Read more…
Winter World (The Long Winter #1) – A. G. Riddle Each month, it grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. The new ice age gripping the Earth shows no signs of stopping. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing Read more…
The Singularity Trap – Dennis E. Taylor Forgive my absence of late. I’m doing my masters and unfortunately this means that my reading time now consists of reading research reports and text books instead of fiction. And there is another 2.5 years of this! Thankfully with travelling to and from Read more…
Red Rising (Red Rising #1) – Pierce Brown I love a good bandwagon. Nothing I love more than getting all swept up in the hype for a popular book, and get excited along with others about how fantastic it is and how much better my life is because I read Read more…
The Diabolic (The Diabolic #1) S.J Kincaid (2016) I have started to venture away from Young Adult a little bit. I’m just finding it a lot of the same. Generally a love triangle, some kind of dystopia, teenage angst… It’s just getting a bit boring to me. How many versions Read more…
The Selection (The Selection #1) – Kiera Cass Sometimes I consider myself to be quite a YA fan. I’m not even sure what I like about the genre. I guess it depends on the novel. I like the adventure when someone is just growing up and is thrust into a Read more…