“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all waters, one can swim against the tide.’” We start with the the head abbot of the Grand Monastery, climbing the eight hundred steps to the Great High Palace of the Protectorate.
The crew of the generation spaceship Dormire wakes up in the middle of a zero-gee slaughter. Floating droplets of blood are everywhere, bodies are hanging in mid air roughly wherever they were stabbed, or poisoned, or strangled. The victims are…the crew. The ship is run entirely by clones, who have no memory of the last twenty-six years. Mur Lafferty’s
So, the story. With no spoilers at all. Hm. I liked it? The end. Kidding.
*hyperventilating* *talking too fast* We’ve only got a few more issues (seven counting this one) of Lost Light and that’s plenty of time to answer a lot of questions except we’ve been waiting for the resolution of the Getway thing for a year now GO FASTER. Sorry. See below for a spoiler-free review of Transformers
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Hugo-nominated novel is set in a Manhattan where some of the worst fears of sea-level rise have already taken place. Don’t expect a Mad-Max-On-Waterskis type of situation though. The year 2140 is far enough into the future that there are plenty of technological advances to keep a 50-foot sea-level rise from getting into the
This time around Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has been on house arrest since his capture in Captain America: Civil War. Having only three days left on his house sentence, he suddenly has a vision of the Quantum Realm, sending Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) back into his life. Hank and
I’d seen news of Image’s upcoming Outpost Zero series, but I hadn’t read the descriptions (I’m WAY behind on my previews and promos) so I glanced at the first few pages of the review copy out of curiosity. Next thing I knew I’d finished the issue. And now I want more. See below for the review
“Let me tell you a secret. All it takes is one bad day….” After hearing all the hype about DC’s Dark Nights: Metal saga, I was a little disappointed after reading Dark Days: Road to Metal and the Dark Nights Deluxe Edition: they’re fine, but they’re a little goofy, a little wordy, and they just
This is actually the second novella in Nnedi Okorafor’s “Binti” series, but it’s worth it to pick up the first one too in order to get the whole story. (Binti won the Hugo for Best Novella in 2015, and it’s only about a hundred pages. Go on, I’ll wait…) All done? Okay, in the first book, Binti