Caliban’s War is the second book of the Expanse series. Another twenty hours of listening to an entertaining story from our solar system.
If you haven’t read James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes , definitely start with that, otherwise the events in Caliban’s war won’t make as much sense. After you finish reading (or listening to) James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes , you’ll know whether you want to keep reading through the series.
Realistic sci-fi is the best genre of literature, right after comedy fantasy/sci-fi. I love when the rules of the universe (think gravity, space travel, technology) are close enough to our age that it’s not just hand-waving “magic” like teleports and warp drives. Technology is more fun when I can imagine it existing if we just improved the existing X by 100%.
Realism is one of the reasons I loved Project Hail Mary and Martian. And now I love the Expanse series too (Leviathan Wakes is book number one of the expanse series).
Andy Weir does not disappoint with his realistic sci-fi. I’ve read Project Hail Mary and I’ve seen the movie before listening to this book. My expectations were high, and Martian met them but not surpassed them.
When you read this book, you’ll witness a sci-fi adventure in the near future. Humanity sends its third mission to Mars, and you get to follow a birlliant and resourceful botanist through an epic failure and struggle for survival. Every part of the story is believable and supported by current science.
I found this book on a random book recommendation list on the internet: Cora’s Goodreads Sci-Fi list. This list contains several books I read and liked.
I read Recursion from Crouch last year and this book has got a similar feel to it. These books reuse several ideas, and the novels’ style (false memory) is identical at the start. If you want to pick up only one of these books, I recommend this one (Dark Matter).
This is a fun little novel about the near future where marketing rules the world. It is a parody on today’s attention economics and big corporations dictating the rules.
The main character is a bum by the standards of Qualityland, he doesn’t have a good job or a girlfriend, but he has a secret in his basement.
At times it was too weird or too whacky. The ending is anticlimactic; it seems like the author ran out of time and needed to finish the book quickly.
Read the story of several spaceships that contain uploaded human minds. These spaceships are Von Neumann probes; self-replicating spaceships meant to spread through the galaxy. Each spaceship has a cloned mined of an Earth engineer called Robert (Bob).
This is the fourth book of the Bobiverse series, so if you are new to Bobiverse, you might want to start with the first book: We Are Legion (We Are Bob). I also strongly recommend the audiobooks narrated by Ray Porter.
I am genuinely excited about this book. It made me do two things I hadn’t done in years: dream about the book, and interrupt my reading because the story got too intense.
I’ve never read Martian, Andy’s previous book, so I had no expectations when opening this book. I learned about the book from someone praising it on our company Slack. The storyline sucked me in and spit me out a week later when I finished listening to the captivating story.
I’ve done it again. I’ve read the Dune for the third time. Actually, this time I listened to the controversial 2007 Audio Renaissance audiobook. Controversial because it’s dramatized with music and read by 12 different voice actors. I liked the format because it was easier to make sense of the many characters in the book.
Herbert wrote Dune in a way that avoids specifics of how the technology looks and works, and so it’s as fun and “current” in 2021 as it was in 1965 when it was first published.
This novel is about dreams and reality. Usually, these are clearly separated but not in Portland, Oregon, not for George Orr, not in 1971.
The whole story happens in a dystopian “future” where humanity suffers from overpopulation and climate change. Ursula projected the worries of the sixties into this book well: overpopulation, declining environment and the cold war.
Overall, the book was OK but not great. I can’t but help to compare with Recursion - many details in the novel seemed not thought-through.
I found this book because it was voted the best Sci-Fi book of 2019 on Goodreads. After reading it, I agree with the vote.
The book describes a New York city struck by a false memory syndrome: people have memories from lives that didn’t happen. The story’s main protagonists are Helena, a scientist specializing in memory research and Barry, NYPD detective. As you read their story, you’ll understand increasingly more about the mysterious mass memory issue.