Radio (2017)

Network Effect

Martha Wells

2020 · 333 pages · 8 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel. You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot. Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.

Neverworld Wake

Marisha Pessl

2018 · 332 pages · 5 reviews

Others: Mostly positive

Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend changed everything. One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world hoping she ll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim's death.

17 X infinity

Groff Conklin

1963 · 272 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Mixed

1984 (adaptation)

Michael Dean

2003 · 37 pages · 7 reviews

Others: Mostly positive

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty years ago. --back cover

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

1968 · 228 pages · 5 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at "the dawn of man" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient artifact dug up on the moon. Though not particularly fast paced, the science is good, and there are a few hair raising events. There are also interesting speculations about the future, such as the space shuttle, and a device eerily similar to an iPad. Leaving plenty of room for contemplation and the appreciation for the inevitable trials of space travel, this is one of the truly landmark pieces of hard science fiction.

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

Hank Green

2020 · 320 pages · 8 reviews

Others: Mostly positive