This novel was something of an unexpected gem. Duggan is an historical novelist from the 1950s and 60s, also an archaeologist, and maybe a bit of an odd duck. He was an Argentine raised in Britain by an upper class … Continue reading →
This is a book I admire by a writer I love. There is a studied, literary quality to the shaping of the fiction, and a deliberate otherworldly quality to the overall novel that announce it as a serious engagement with … Continue reading →
There is much to like in this book, and the beginning chapters are its strongest argument for quality. The character of the poet-mother is complicated, and the scenes in which Noah arrives for his visit, learns the news about her … Continue reading →
The final book of the Expanse series focuses on the echoing conflict between the aliens who built the ring space and protomolecule and the entities from a separate universe who destroyed them. In this summary you can see the strength … Continue reading →
This is the high point of the Expanse series in my opinion, in part because the old and slightly hackneyed politics of the early novels has become irrelevant, but mostly because the purity of the grand space opera dominates the … Continue reading →
This book begins the final long arc of story in the Expanse series. Being that the streaming series on Prime never covered these books, this was my first experience of the series that was not overly colored by the filmed … Continue reading →
This novel is the low point of the series for me, though it is, as these novels always are, readable and compelling, largely due to the deft use of action, point of view switches, character familiarity, and the rising swell … Continue reading →
I liked this book best of the series when I had been apprehensive about it upon learning that it would flow into such different directions and contain so many different point of view characters. In this novel the Expanse series … Continue reading →
To begin with, I read this book with a lot of speed and interest and at the same time fought with the writers’ choices the whole way. Who thought it was a good idea to colonize a bunch of worlds … Continue reading →
The problem with this novel is that you could take care of all of it in about a paragraph: the Rocinante (or some other ship) enters the ring and discovers gates to other star systems and boom, you’re at the … Continue reading →