Michael Rawdon rated Roadside Picnic: 3 stars
Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий
A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area where the laws of physics …
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Bay Area programmer guy. Lifelong comic book reader, also a big fan of comic strips and webcomics. In prose I mostly read science fiction with a smattering of fantasy, horror, mystery and the occasional nonfiction book. My cats help.
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Michael Rawdon rated Now You See It . . .: 4 stars
Now You See It . . . by Richard Matheson
Summoning his family and associates to his side after a mysterious disease destroys his career as the world's greatest stage …
Michael Rawdon rated Lockstep: 4 stars
Lockstep by Karl Schroeder
"When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold …
Michael Rawdon rated The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: 3 stars
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with …
Michael Rawdon rated The Rhesus Chart: 3 stars
Michael Rawdon rated Empress of Eternity: 3 stars
Empress of Eternity by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Take an artifact, an impossible artifact from the far, forgotten past, mix well with time condensed into event points throughout …
Michael Rawdon rated The End of All Things: 4 stars
The End of All Things by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #6)
Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was …
Michael Rawdon rated Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea: 3 stars
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea by Adam Roberts
"Adam Roberts revisits Jules Verne's classic novel in a collaboration with the illustrator behind a recent ... edition of The …
Michael Rawdon rated The violent century: 3 stars
The violent century by Lavie Tidhar
In a slightly alternate world, heroics mean different things to different people. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends for seventy years, …
Michael Rawdon rated Slow Bullets: 4 stars
Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds
From the author of the Revelation Space series. The end of a war between hundreds of worlds is imminent. On …
Michael Rawdon rated Final days: 3 stars
Final days by Gary Gibson (Final days -- 1)
It's 2235 and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth. …
Michael Rawdon rated Poseidon's Wake: 4 stars
Poseidon's Wake by Howard Hughes
Sequel to On the Steel Breeze.
Michael Rawdon rated The Recollection: 3 stars
The Recollection by Gareth L. Powell
In modern-day London, failed artist Ed Rico is secretly in love with his brother's wife, Alice. When his brother disappears …
Michael Rawdon rated You: 3 stars
Michael Rawdon rated The sculptor: 3 stars
The sculptor by Scott McCloud
"David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his …