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Review: Of Fire and Stars – Audrey Coulthurst
Part 1 of Of Fire and Stars – Princess Dennaleia is betrothed to the prince of a neighboring kingdom to seal an alliance. When she meets her fiance’s sister, princess Amaranthine, the two girls together start investigating a secret that could threaten the kingdom.
Review: A Starstruck Odyssey – Dimension 20
In a spaceship shaped like a hot dog, we find a motley crew of space travellers: Grouchy Captain Norman “Skip” Takamori, Navigator Riva, a somewhat naive alien enthusiastically endorsing a pyramid scheme, engineer Gunnie, who is deep in medical depth after a tragic space accident, business executive Margaret Encino, who is working from home out of the ship’s escape pod, All-purpose android Sundy Sidney and a clone with a vengeance called Barry Syx. As they travel the galaxy looking for work, they find themselves tangling with some of the biggest forces in the universe.
Review: The Sins on Their Bones – Laura R. Samotin
Dimitri used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo – until he was usurped by his husband Alexey, who turned out not to just be abusive, but also a dark sorcerer. Having lost his husband as well as a civil war, Dimitri has fallen into depression and is now in exile, holed up in a foreign city with a handful of his most loyal followers, trying to think of a way to kill an immortal man and put Dimitri back on the throne of his empire. Perhaps the most important of those followers is Vasily, Dimitri’s former spymaster, who must find a way to infiltrate Alexey’s court – while also navigating complex feeling towards Dimitri. Alexey, meanwhile, is trying to forget Dimitri – and to focus on his plans for world domination.
Review: Avatar – James Cameron
In this visual spectacle, a disabled marine, travels to the distant moon of Pandora to join a corporate mining operation. He will enter the avatar-programme, whose members transfer their consciousness to human-alien hybrid clones to communicate with the local population.
Review: Oats Studios – Neill Blomkamp
This assembly of short (and some really short) films by Neill Blomkamp is not a series so much as an assemblage set of cinematographic thought experiments that gives some insights into what moves Blomkamp as an artist.
Review: This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Two agents fighting on opposite sides of a time war start off a secret correspondence. Writing to each other from the different strands of time in which they are fighting their battles, they start to question what winning the war would really mean to them.
Review: Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi – Rian Johnson
8th episode in the Star Wars Series – Fighting a losing war against the First Order, the Resistance is forced to flee with their last fleet, while far away Rey starts her training with Luke Skywalker.
Review: Sunless Sea – Failbetter Games
Sunless Sea is a steampunk rogue-like with elements that harken back to the writings of Coleridge and Poe, in which you sail your dapper vessel across the vastness of the underground Unterzee in search of riches and fame.
Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
Part one in the Wayfarer series – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet tells the stories of the crew of a wormhole-tunneling spaceship, The Wayfarer.
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