Hernando

MiR is a great thrilling book.

” For those who are marooned without hope of rescue” gives a more special meaning when reading the victim's diary . That was a truly sense of loneliness.

I did not read the first book but it was not necessary to enjoy this one.

Very promising premise but it was a bit boring and I can recall just a few interesting chapters. It supposed to be thrilling but I felt dissapointed, with little interest on the plot and annoyed with the neverending “have to keep my crew safe” from the main character. Also, the names, my goodness. Beside all that the science on the book was good.

It was lighter than I thought, action packed, western vibes and sometimes it felt like Mad Max but with robots. Good read indeed.

I was a bit worried when I started reading this book thinking about the spiders and bringing my memories back when I read A Fire Upon the Deep and all the stuff with the Thines because that was the only thing I was bored a bit in AFUtD. Well I was surprised by how interested I was on the spiders and their world. I did not like the end but It was a great read.

The Man Who Folded Himself is a time travel story that is considered by many a master piece. A man inherits a time travel machine and starts playing with it. Sounds fun......until it doesn't.

To me, it is a pointless and silly book even within its own boundaries. One of the worst book I've ever read.

Fortunately is very short (less than 200 pages) but the whole story is supremely boring.

If you have never come across the Fermi paradox then this book has a fantastic way to explain one of its solution. The dark forest hypothesis.

I consider this one of those slow but great books in speculative fiction. Much better than the previous one in my opinion due solely to its sheer scale.

The aliens found in the previous book, called Trisolarans, are coming and will reach the planet in roughly in 400 years. They become substantially dangerous as they are able to send subatomic particles that allows them instant knowledge of all human information, leaving us with barely anything to protect us as everything we can think of is already known by them and therefore end up sabotaged. The only thing they cannot know is what is inside peoples mind.

How do humans deal with Trisolarans with just that is the main plot of the book .

There are too many things here that are utterly insane. Reading the book for the first time was quite an experience. If you like mind bending ideas, plot twist, don't care much about the characters and are fascinated by old school Sci Fi, then this book is a must read.

The first installment of the acclaimed trilogy. This set the tone of the upcoming books, but the scale here is much less.

This is not the most strict Hard Science Fiction by all means, but the author tries his best in doing everything possible with the modern understanding of the laws of Physics....... more or less.

The title of the book and focal point is about the problem described in physics and orbital mechanics about finding the subsequent motions of three celestial bodies using Newtons Law of Motion.

There is a bunch of surprises here as we get to look over some very well known historical figures and an alien culture trying to survive to the catalyst effects of their start system

With its flat but ok characters, the Chinese setting makes the story even more engaging.

The Gone World is an insteresting thriller with time travel elements and some bits of horror.

What is not is the marketing's salad combination of Inception, True Detective, 12 Monkeys, Interstellar, and The Silence of the Lambs.

I see how this book can appeal to those who enjoy the aforementioned movies, but it is definitely not all those things combined or even separated. It has nothing remotely close to Interestellar or Inception. Probably some bits of True Detective, but that's it. It also does a disservice to the book because I think it can stand by itself without being hyped with those blurbs.

Anyway, the story here is that of an officer from the NCIS who is sent to solve a case that involves murder and dissapearance. In the process, she finds herself traveling to the past and to many futures, trying to find answers to unraveling mysteries. This includes the end of the world, a different version of herself, etc.

An intriguing sense of gloom and doom is present throughout the whole story, captivating the reader with what could possibly be the resolution.

The book does a good job wiring paradoxes and blending thriller with Science Fiction elements.

Definitely one of the best surprises of the year. A year full of dull SF stories.

The book version of the movie Predestination starring Ethan Hawke.

This a very short book about time travel and the paradox that can happen while doing so.

I read it in a single sitting as it is just about 20 pages, but it is also one of my preferred Heinlein short stories.