Weekly Sci Fi Diary | July 4th 2025

Regular viewerswill know that I'm partial to an end of the world tale, and I found All theFendi of Hell to be a real page turner, and I plowed through it breathlessly ina couple of sittings in total under 24 hours.

They end upgoing to couples counseling, which I thought was really fun and well done. uhthey reconcile after a fashion and they fall in love or a reasonable faximileof it and they live happily ever afteror do they? This was a quick read.

I'm about 25% through Beggars inSpain on audio book, and so far I am really enjoying it. this is a bookabout genetic modifications to the point where people don't require sleep andthe implications of the introduction of that into society and the us and themdynamic that it seems to create and the and the hate and there are lots ofparallels to minority groups that happening right now in actual book.

I enjoyed reading these stories. I do enjoy Ian McDonald'swriting. He brings a vivid version of India convincingly to life in thesestories

the main effect was making me want to go back and reread uhRiver of Gods which I which I did enjoy.

And this isa helter skelter ride through a future solar system. Earth has been ravaged andwhat remains of humanity is living in habitats in asteroids and precariousplanetary colonies all within our solar system.

Next, I read Shroud Rather listen toShroud by AdrienChaikovski and I think this is the best of his recent offeringsin my humble opinion. He brings his trademark ability to bear to create anunusual and alien world in this case shroud.

I'muh about halfway through the this by Adam Roberts. So I shall finish thatpretty soon. I think it's a relatively light read.