C. A. Higgins / Lightless / Brilliant Debut / Hard Sci-Fi / Social Sci-Fi

I love Hard Sci-Fi full of real science
I love Social Sci-Fi full of serious social issues
Do all of the above in one story
And Illuminate the Human Condition
What more could I ask for

Lightless by C. A. Higgins
Does it all

The Ship (the Ananke) is magnificent
Think big, as in Death Star big
We do not know it's purpose

On the ship a crew of 3
You heard me right, only 3 crew members
And an awakening computer

Althea, the engineer, designed much
Coded the computer
Ananke is hers and hers alone
Ananke is her child
Althea will protect her child

This book is on many Best of 2015 lists
With good reason


Music from 1988
Steve Earle / Copperhead Road

Scott Hawkins / The Library at Mount Char / Bizarre Twist Twisty Twisted Pleasure To Read

There is a Library
There are Librarians
Like nothing you have imagined

Scott Hawkins debut
The Library at Mount Char
Inventive merely hints at the brilliance here

You can't become complacent
The rules are always changing
The ante, your life
The stakes, always being raised

Carolyn and her peers
Spirited away as children
Raised by "father"
Each with their own library skill set
Some much more deadly than others

Father, perhaps God, or something else
Missing now
Turbulent times to be sure

I'm just not giving any spoilers here
Sometimes touching
Sometimes uber-violent
Sometimes both, often with a Bam! of Bazaar
This is a very unique read
You will be engaged


Music
Ryan Adam / 1989
Covering Taylor Swift's CD 1989

Adam Mansbach / The Dead Run / Page Burning Thriller

Adam Mansbach can make you turn pages
The Dead Run defies genera placement
The pages turn none the less
The Jess Galvan Series will hook you

In The Dead Run 
Jess is just trying to do the right thing
Save his daughter, from the cult mom joined
Save a Mexican hooker from some very bad people
Save the World from an Aztec God
Pretty much average day after average day

The plotting makes complete sense
Convoluted it may be
It makes perfect sense to the reader

Fans of Richard Kadrey's Sand Man Slim series
This may be a good choice for you, it was for me


Music revisited
Not for the faint
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Alex Marshall / A Crown For Cold Silver / A Delightful Abundance Of Diversity

A Crown for Cold Silver
A terrific debut by Alex Marshall

My kind of characters
Flawed, Broken, Irreverent
Indomitable at their core

My kind of Epic Fantasy
Sprawling, Conniving, Bloody
Interesting magic, not over used

I'm a big fan of first novels
This on stands tall
I want more


Music
Ryan Bingham
Junky Star  ocn644730229
Not on the CDs in the library
My Very Favorite Song
Until I'm One With You (listen up on YouTube)
(Theme song to The Bridge TV series)

James S. A. Corey / Nemesis Games / Brilliant, Engrossing, Captivating Back Stories / Best Of The Best / Space Opera

I hope you are already reading the Expanse series
This is The Space Opera of this moment in time
The SyFy Channel will be airing the new series soon
They say December

The first book owned me from the opening
The next four did not skip a beat

The character development is complete
Or so I thought
Book five, Nemesis Games, woke me up

The Rocinante goes in for repairs, lots of repairs
The four main characters scatter
All have their secrets
Secrets we did not know

Jim, Oh Captain my Captain
You didn't notice this stuff?
Okay, Okay, neither did I
We're a little dense
A little stubborn
Okay, a lot stubborn, very dense

Naomi
What Were You Thinking?
How Could You?
Oh, How do you live with that?
What in Hell are you going to do?
What will they do?
Messy, Messy Messy
I'm with you, I understand, Keep Walking

Alex and Amos
My kind of "A" Team
And I thought I knew you

How could I love these characters any more?
Book 5, Nemesis Games, that's how
Back stories on the crew
Wow!!

James S. A. Corey, a pseudonym
Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck


Music
Lindi Ortega
Faded Gloryville
Alt-Country, Americana, Canadiana