Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too. Only posting books I've read/reading since joining in 2023 (maybe one day I'll go through my bookshelf and change this).
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The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads …
What happens when Vision, who is immensely powerful, longs for a "regular family" including all the turmoil, unpredictability, and emotional struggles that come with it. Superman meets the Bicentennial Man.
The superstar, critically acclaimed team behind BATMAN: DAMNED and JOKER deliver a bold story in …
What if Lex Luthor is actually a good guy? And his motivations were that knowing that all that stops the end of the human race is staying on the good side of an alien?
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about …
A bunch of Scalzi's books are going in a Humble Bundle right now; 21 books for A$30 (https://www.humblebundle.com/books/john-scalzis-interdependency-old-mans-war-and-more-tor-books-encore). Are they any good?
The band of adventurers known as Vox Machina will save the world. Eventually. But even …
I was given this as a gift years ago... Now's a good time to read it, I guess?
It's 75 years after the events that left the Roche Limit colony in flames. When …
I like that this series is three separate stories, and not a continuation of characters throughout. It's also definitely scratching a hard SF itch in a way that SF comics seem to not normally be able to do.
"Our destiny is the stars, and I will lead us there." Twenty years after this promise, billionaire Langford Skaargard's dream …
When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to a fantasy world and …
That was enjoyable. But it feels like the author has a huge world with an incredible history and lore developed and we only get a teeny tiny sneak peak at it. Apparently it only went for another six issues after this?
Two children. Two locations. One climate crisis.
In the Arctic wilderness, Yuki and her dog …
Very good. Not at good as Illegal, IMO, but still excellent.
This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to …
Oh goodness... Where are my kids, I need to hold them forever 😭
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender …
Look, this book is good. I'll say that from the outset. Is it as good as the other ten Ender/Shadow books before it? On balance, I'd say probably not (with the exception of Xenocide maybe), but what it does hit me with most of all is nostalgia. After the first book in each of the Ender and Shadow series the story arcs completely diverge. This book reconnects them in a completely legitimate way, and brings all the characters back together for the first time in twenty years (for us, not them) for a final story. So it definitely felt nice to have all these characters from different stories in the same book. But one thing that's different, and a little bit weird for me at least, in this story is that both Ender and Bean – the two main characters of the two series – are absent. It's fine, and …
Look, this book is good. I'll say that from the outset. Is it as good as the other ten Ender/Shadow books before it? On balance, I'd say probably not (with the exception of Xenocide maybe), but what it does hit me with most of all is nostalgia. After the first book in each of the Ender and Shadow series the story arcs completely diverge. This book reconnects them in a completely legitimate way, and brings all the characters back together for the first time in twenty years (for us, not them) for a final story. So it definitely felt nice to have all these characters from different stories in the same book. But one thing that's different, and a little bit weird for me at least, in this story is that both Ender and Bean – the two main characters of the two series – are absent. It's fine, and there's no issue with it, but I was keenly aware of the hole they both left.
The only other thing that I felt let down by was the complete absence of the revelation (regarding the Formics) that occured at the end of Shadows in Flight. It was pretty significant, and basically made no impact at all.
But still: good book. Go read it. (after you've read the other ten first)
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender …
ALL finished...
Tragedy befalls the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense as the plague of frogs devastates …
I think I'm going to pause here for a while. Not for lack of enjoyment; I want to buy these stories in print (I'm currently reading them digitally) and If I get too far ahead I'll never justify buying the ones I've already read.
When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black …
Very cool. Now I want the others...
Once they were heroes. Now, banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions …
Interesting. This volume is mostly just introduction to the characters (roughly one an issue), but I'm interested to see where the story goes from here.
Young Philip Haldane has been living a happy life with his beloved older sister Helen, …
Apparently the mean old nurse from chapter one was too scary...
