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December 27, 2020

Beacon 23 (Review)

ometimes the parallel between the actual world and the projected world is so direct in a science fiction book, it’s obvious. And sometimes I don’t care. In Beacon 23, we have a war-torn vet tending a hyperspace beacon that marks and asteroid field. The guts of the station are in the spherical hub. But the broadcasting unit needs to be a distance from it, so it’s on top of a projection for safety. Kinda like… a lighthouse, right? Just like The Vagrant from last week, you’ve got a single-point POV from this sorry keeper as he tends his beacon, talking […]
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March 2, 2025

Wool (Review)

y friend Pete loaned this book (first of three) to read. I was a bit hesitant – I don’t know Pete’s tastes and if they weren’t mine, well, I’d just signed up for about 570 pages of regret. Needn’t have worried. Wool jumps right in. The last of humanity live in a silo underground, about 150 floors deep with nothing but a circular stairwell to join them. The world outside is toxic and dead, but people still enjoy sitting in front of the big display, watching it. And to keep those camera lenses clean, every so often (when someone cracks […]
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