Escape Velocity

A curated Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction Media

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Review: Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson

The Queen of the Netherlands is invited to a secret climate conference where an extravagant Texas oil millionaire reveals his plans to save the earth from climate change and rising sea levels.

Review: Neuromancer – William Gibson

Part one of the Sprawl Trilogy – Henry Case, a hacker wasting his life away in the underworld of Japanese Chiba, gets picked up by a mercenary in the service of an ex-special forces agent who needs his hacking skills for a unique job.

Review: Exhalation – Ted Chiang

A merchant in ancient Baghdad discovers a time portal which allows him to revisit his past mistakes. A former zookeeper takes a job raising digital lifeforms. A new technology enables people to communicate with alternate versions of themselves, and to see how their life would have turned out if they had made different choices.

Collected: Fantasy High by Dimension 20

COLLECTION: It’s the first day of school at Agueforth Adventuring academy, a school for teen fantasy hero’s. Will our intrepid adventurers make it through the year?

Best Served Cold

Review: Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie

Against a backdrop of Machiavellian politics and bloody war between the city states of Styria, former mercenary general Monzcarro Murcatto is betrayed and nearly murdered by an employer she thought she could trust. Battered and beaten, she scrapes together a crew of bloody-minded misfits with a single mission: Revenge!

Review: Don’t look up – Adam McKay

Two astronomers discover an extinction-event worthy comet is headed for Earth. Humanity has six months to think of something to save the planet. However, who will listen to the scientific community warning for total destruction? Certainly not politicians or the media…

Curator Question: 2022 Resolutions

What are our curators’s resolutions for 2022? Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles will finally get the attention they deserve?

The Lions of Al-Rassan

Review: The Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay

In a low fantasy world mirroring religiously divided medieval Spain, people from different faiths and different kingdoms find each other and forge bonds of love that are subsequently tested as the peninsula threatens to descend into the chaos of holy war, and their different allegiances start to slowly pull them apart.