Category: Reading List

This book was hard to read. The author’s extreme misogyny and homophobia become central themes in the story. As does his explicit endorsement and justification of intergenerational relationships which really cross moral boundaries. Nevertheless, the narrative form and conclusion of most of the storylines from the beginning of the series give this book a satisfying… Continue reading Dune 3: Children of Dune

Much in the same way as Asimov’s Foundation series started out, Paul creates a religion to facilitate the execution of his power and vision for the universe. His fanatic legions perpetrate a Jihad across the universe, killing tens of billions of people and cementing the new political order with Paul ostensibly ruling the universe as… Continue reading Dune 2: Messiah

Dune is a story about power. Paul finds himself in the position to decide whether or not he wants to seize power. Just as these characters found themselves in the same position…   Gandalf and Galadriel were both tempted with power. They both saw a vision of a future where they had the power to… Continue reading Dune 1

CJ Trowbridge 2021-12-08 AIS 440 Jonny Appleseed             This book follows several formative moments in the life of a person who would come to identify as two-spirit, indigenous, and with sex work. The central themes of the book is of coming to terms with the many ways he didn’t fit with the norms and expectations… Continue reading Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

The Broken Earth book series was recommended by a close friend. It is an amazing read. Afrofuturism in general is always amazingly insightful, and I find that’s especially true when it’s distant-future Afrofuturism. These books paint a picture of a post-apocalyptic world, but it’s a world that has passed so many apocalypses that the landscape… Continue reading The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

This is the second book of the third Thrawn trilogy. I really liked it. It was a great next step. I see a lot of really interesting attempts at explaining the background that allowed him to accomplish his later feats which featured in earlier stories. It was cool to see the way that other characters… Continue reading Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (Thrawn 10)

This is the third book of The Bridge, a newer trilogy by Gibson which reintroduces many of his earlier ideas within the context of the new technologies that had come out since the Sprawl Trilogy. This book starts to tie everything together. I liked the way he portrayed Laney and I initially liked Konrad. It… Continue reading All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson

This is the second book of The Bridge, a newer trilogy by Gibson which reintroduces many of his earlier ideas within the context of the new technologies that had come out since the Sprawl Trilogy. One of my favorite pieces of this story is the concept of “nodal points,” “emergent systems of history,” “the shapes… Continue reading Idoru by William Gibson