M. R. Carey / The Girl With All The Gifts / Skim Cream, The Very Best

As a young boy we often drank raw milk
One of the delights of raw milk
The cream rises to the top
The reward, Skim Cream
Skimmed from the top of the two gallon jug
The very best cream known to me

The Girl With All The Gifts
Nothing less than Skim Cream
It has risen to the top of many of my lists
So good is this book
It will be double shelved
A copy in Fiction
A copy in Science Fiction

M. R. Carey has out done himself
Literary Fiction, Literary Speculative Fiction
Literary Dystopic Fiction, Literature
Call it what you will

Engaged
Does not describe the reader state
Start this story knowing
You will be occupied

James S. A. Corey / Cibola Burn / The Very Best Space Opera slash Speculative Fiction

It's not often I come back to rattle about a 4th book
Cibola Burn is an easy exception
Book four of the Expanse series  /  (post bk.1)  (post bk.2)
James S. A. Corey is knocking me down

The series gets better with every book
The character development is phenomenal
I'm totally invested
I'll follow these people anywhere

The story becomes more complex
Right along with the characters
This is speculative fiction at its very best

I can't bring myself to give any more of the story away
The reward of discovery is too satisfying
The reader is constantly being rewarded, never sated
I hunger for more


Music
Wrecking Ball
Emmylou Harris

Jane Lindskold / Artemis Awakening / Lost World Found

This is a great update on an old premise
Jane Lindskold writes engaging characters
Artemis Awakening is book one

Lost for over 500 years
Artemis was a special vacation planet
Terra-formed and seeded
Even the humans were "created" for Artemis

No modern technology allowed
Go to Artemis, Go primitive

500 years after the great war
The collapse of everything
Total destruction of many planets
The complete collapse of civilisation

Artemis is found by Griffin Dane
Artemis has not had a visitor for over 500 years
All is not a rosy as it seems
What Fun!


Music
Supernova
Ray LaMontagne