Category: Reading List
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Expanse 2 – Caliban’s War
Caliban’s War is the sequel to Leviathan Wakes, and the second book in The Expanse series. This book picks up a short time after the end of the first book, and immediately brings in my favorite character in the series, Avasarala; the machiavellian politician who is not afraid to bend the rules for the greater…
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Expanse 1 – Leviathan Wakes
This quickly became one of my all-time favorites. After I heard its TV adaptation called “The best scifi since Firefly,” I had to give it a shot. The first season of the show takes you about halfway through this first book in the series… In true space-opera fashion, it follows a group of people loosely…
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The Martian
It took me a few tries to get into this book. It starts out slow for an action novel but once you get into the meat of it, it’s an interesting story. The protagonist finds himself separated from his team and stranded on Mars. The story covers his fight to extend his supplies and resources…
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Tarkin
“Only glory can follow a man to the grave.” Tarkin follows the formative years of Tarkin, a master strategist and military commander. The book also follows his relationship with Sidious and Vader, and his rise to power. We see him work together with Vader to solve a complex problem and uncover a number of conspiracies.…
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Neuromancer
“Between the trees, on gentle and too cleverly irregular slopes of sweet green grass, the bright umbrellas shaded the hotel’s guests from the unfaltering radiance of the [artifical] sun. A burst of French from a nearby table caught his attention: the golden children he’d seen gliding above river mist the evening before. Now he saw…
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Divergent
I’ve just finished reading Divergent which is currently ranked #1 on the New York Times’ best seller list for “Children’s Fiction.” I saw the movie and couldn’t decide if I loved it or hated it, so I decided to give the book a go. At 487 pages, Divergent flew by. And that’s no excuse for…