Nemo and Dory are getting acquainted with us. They take food directly from our hands and make us know when they are hungry. The adorable, little, nasty things are still too tiny to bite our fingers, but sooner or later, I'm betting they will be like their father before them.
I recently joined TikTok and I find it funny. I'm still trying to figure out how it works, but I've already posted a few videos there. This is the first one and the text is a teaser I wrote about the Manderian secret service. If you are curious, click below and let me know what you think. I'm always eager to hear from you.
But let's get started with the books of the week.
Life after the Crash. Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining Lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way into the Moon's core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld.
Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. Four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—have trained for two-and-a-half years for the Return. They're bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth city of San Francisco.
But what awaits them there will turn their assumptions upside down—and in the process, either save or destroy what's left of humanity.
Get Dropnauts by J. Scott Coatsworth here.
What would you do as the first synthetic intelligence?
In the Chronicles of Theren, embark on a centuries-spanning adventure across the stars, beginning with the creation of the first synthetic intelligence.
Created in a lab with sterile white walls, Theren longs to meet the people of the world. The first SI has hopes, fears, and dreams, just like a human.
Yet the world fears the idea of an artificial mind, capable of conscious thought. To survive against powerful corporations, hateful humans, and global conspiracies, Theren will need friends—and more importantly, a family.
Can Earth survive side-by-side with its new creation?
Can Earth survive as it expands across the stars, guided by immortal minds?
Explore the Chronicles of Theren today and read the whole trilogy in one volume.
Includes:
First of Their Kind (Book 1)
Their Greatest Game (Book 2)
Flight of the 500 (Bonus Novel)
Before Inferno (Bonus Short Story)
Their Pieces Were Stars (Book 3)
Find this boxset here.
What kind of life will we find in the depths of Europa’s oceans? What kind of life will we allow an AI with human level intelligence?
The ten stories in Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories explore these questions and many more.
In the near future, humanity builds a colony on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. They tunnel into the ice to explore the dark oceans beneath the moon's surface, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. What they find will change them forever, setting humanity on a path to the stars. But the old conflicts and hatreds of Earth are not so easily escaped. Will human colonists on distant planets and moons create a paradise or a horrifying dystopia?
You can grab your copy of Sapience by Alexis Lantgen here.
And here we go with my take on book 5 of The Expanse. Mind that by now I'm already reading book 7.
Nemesis Game finally introduces us to the rest of the crew of the Roci, Amos, Alex, and Naomi. And they’re all cool in their own way, facing their past each one by themselves. Yes, because they all go for their own ways to face their personal hell. The book also deals with other consequences of the discovery of hundreds of exoplanets easily reachable through the Rings.
Here, the story diverges with the series for some major events involving both Alex and Fred Johnson.
It’s an action-packed book with a great deal of explosions and a new villain, Marco Inaros introduced through Naomi’s eyes (someone already introduced in the TV series in season 4).
Amos and Naomi are my favourite point of views in this one. One because it explains more about a life lived in a violent environment, and the other because it goes deep into Naomi’s being to finally get to know her well. She’s definitely my favourite character among the Roci's crew. Someone who made some bad choices, followed by hard ones, and tried to live by them, but never really doing it right until now.
I kind of understand why these characters weren’t used before, in terms of novels’ structure, and yet, it would have made the series even more interesting had we known the Roci’s crew better before instead of boring Holden all the time. I definitely can bring myself to like him. And of course, we still get a lot of boring Holden.
What I think makes this novel good is the villain, as usual. Marco Inaros is a charismatic character seen through Naomi’s eyes. And perhaps that’s what makes her storyline the best one. The fact that we see him through her eyes, past and present. His motives will be really clear only later on (in the following book), but man if he’s mean. And what is more intriguing than a mean character?
I give this book 4 stars. It’s good, but still not as good as book 2.
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