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what I’m reading: cold eternity by s.a. barnes.

book reviews, books and reading · August 15, 2025

Halley Zwick is on the run and needs to hide out somewhere no one will find her. She takes an under-the-table job on board the Elysian Fields, a spaceship carrying hundreds of cryogenically frozen bodies. When the technology to unfreeze the people didn't work, the ship was turned into a morbid, Read the Post

what I’m reading: the ministry of time by kaliane bradley.

book reviews, books and reading · June 22, 2025

In the near future, the British government has commandeered a time door that they use to gather people from different points in history. The protagonist in this book (who is nameless) is tasked to serve as a bridge - to live, assist, and monitor Commander Graham Gore, a man who was fated to die Read the Post

what I’m reading: the martian by andy weir.

book reviews, books and reading · May 23, 2025

When astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind on a space mission to Mars, he has to survive by himself on an uninhabited and inhospitable planet until he can be rescued. I recently watched The Martian on Amazon, and I was reminded of how much I like the movie and the story. So, I Read the Post

what I’m reading: run by blake crouch.

book reviews, books and reading · May 2, 2025

Jack Colclough and his family are hurrying to pack their car to leave town. A couple of days ago, people started going crazy and murdering anyone they saw. The power's gone out, and now the names of people to be killed are being read aloud on the Emergency Broadcast System. Jack hears his name Read the Post

what I’m reading: the space between worlds by micaiah johnson.

book reviews, books and reading · February 28, 2025

In the far future, scientists have discovered alternate universes and have developed a way to travel between worlds. The only catch is that you cannot travel to an alternate universe if your counterpart in that universe is alive. Luckily Cara is good at dying - she has died in 372 worlds which makes Read the Post

what I’m reading: how to be remembered by michael thompson.

book reviews, books and reading · February 21, 2025

Since he was 1, every year on his birthday Tommy Llewellyn goes through a Reset - he is forgotten by everyone who knows him, and all his belongings, photographs, and records of him are erased. After being forgotten by his parents on his first birthday, Tommy moves into a children's home where he Read the Post

what I’m reading: ghost station by s.a. barnes.

book reviews, books and reading · May 29, 2024

Dr. Ophelia Bray joins a space exploration crew in the hopes of studying and treating the crew to prevent an outbreak of ERS, a space-based condition that can lead to mental deterioration and violence. The team lands on an abandoned planet and sets out to investigate the terrain and figure out why Read the Post

what I’m reading: calamity by constance fay.

book reviews, books and reading · February 12, 2024

Newly named captain of a ragtag ship, Temperance Reed is just trying to pay the bills and keep her crew together. When she is contacted by the Escajeda Family to scout a backwater planet, Herschel 2, she has no choice but to take the job. Unfortunately, the job comes with the second child of the Read the Post

what I’m reading: star splitter by matthew kirby.

book reviews, books and reading · September 29, 2023

It's 2198 and Jessica Mathers is traveling by teleportation to join her parents waiting for her on a spaceship almost 14 lightyears from Earth. The plan is to explore a new planet to determine if it can support human life. But something goes wrong with the teleportation and Jessica wakes up inside a Read the Post

what I’m reading: the burning dark by adam christoper.

book reviews, books and reading · June 16, 2023

One thousand years in the future, war hero Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is sent to oversee the decommissioning of an outdated space station. But what was supposed to be a routine job turns out to be nothing like he imagined. The station's Commandant is nowhere to be seen, other space station crew Read the Post

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