Daybreak – 2250 A.D. (aka Star Man’s Son) by Andre Norton
It’s 2250 A.D., two hundred years after a nuclear holocaust destroyed most life, knowledge, history, and civilization on Earth. Fors, a young man with a mutation that renders his hair silver and his hearing and sight extra keen, is a descendent of a group of scientists who used to do nuclear research before it all went wrong. Fors desperately wants to become a Star Man like his father who died on a quest ten years ago.
January 10th, 2024. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Andre Norton | Audio, Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
UnWholly (2012) is the second book in Neal Shusterman’s UNWIND DYSTOLOGY. You’ll need to read the first novel, Unwind, first, so I’ll assume you have. This review will contain minor spoilers for that book.
Connor, Risa, and Lev have each escaped being unwound, are hiding from the juvenile authority, and are determined to stop the evil practice of unwinding that their society has embraced. The plot splits into a few subplots as each teenager has their own dangerous road to travel in this installment.
January 5th, 2024. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Neal Shusterman | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor
Heaven’s River (2021) is the fourth book in Dennis E. Taylor’s amusing and intelligent BOBIVERSE series. You’ll first want to read the previous three books, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), For We Are Many, and All These Worlds, or you’ll be lost. This review will contain mild spoilers for the previous books.
By this point in the Bobiverse timeline,
November 13th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
In the near future, after a long bloody war between pro-life and pro-choice armies, the United States amended the constitution to ban abortion but allow parents to “retroactively abort” a child between 13 and 18 years old as long as the child was “unwound” in a process that allows the child’s parts to be given to others, like organ donations. In this way, the child isn’t actually killed, but lives on, a technicality that appeases both sides.
You’d think that few parents would opt to unwind their child,
November 8th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Neal Shusterman | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
The Renegat by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Renegat (2019) is a long, slow-moving, complicated novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING series. As usual, the story jumps around in time, following multiple plots and perspectives. The characters are new to us, so readers who are unfamiliar with the DIVING universe could start here if they want to, though it’d probably be best to read the series in either publication order, or the order we’ve presented on our author page.
October 12th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Searching for the Fleet by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Searching for the Fleet (2018) is the seventh full-length novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING series. It focuses on Coop, commander of the Ivoire, and Yash, one of his officers (chief engineer) who has expertise in anaconda drives. We don’t see Boss in this installment.
As has been common for the last few novels, Searching for the Fleet jumps around in time. The first long section shows us an event we’ve known about (and have been wondering about) for a while now – the suicide of Dix,
August 28th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Falls by Kristine Kathryn Rusch science fiction book reviews
The Falls (2016) is the eighth novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING series but, since it takes place in the past and features a completely different cast of characters, you can read it as a stand-alone at any point in the series. The author recommends reading it after The Runabout (which was published later) because it gives us the backstory of a character,
August 1st, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Runabout by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Finally we get to explore more of the Boneyard in The Runabout (2017), the fifth full-length novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING series. It was actually published after The Falls, but it works better if you read it between Skirmishes and The Falls. (And this is what the author suggests, too.)
After the discovery of the Boneyard,
July 27th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Skirmishes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Skirmishes (2013) is the fourth novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING universe. It begins a month after the events in Boneyards which, of course, you’ll want to read first. Skirmishes has a structure similar to Boneyards – there are two main plotlines (one starring Boss and the other starring Coop) and one of them jumps around in time.
In Boss’s plotline, she’s trying to get into the Boneyard which is,
July 13th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Boneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Boneyards (2012) is the third full-length novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING series. You’ll want to read Diving into the Wreck and City of Ruins first. A couple of companion novellas that you may also want to read first (but it’s not necessary) are Becalmed and The Application of Hope.
Boneyards begins five years after the events of City of Ruins (as well as the two companion novellas mentioned above).
July 10th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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