Escape Velocity

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Brass Empire

Review: Brass Empire – Rock Manor Games

This steampunk-themed deck builder sees players compete for the services of the best employees and the most powerful blueprints in a battle for the pile of brass coins in the centre!

Review: KliFi – Adriaan van Dis

In a future Netherlands, the government is controlled by climate denying populists, and Jákob Hemmelbahn witnesses the result of the government’s negligence when a storm washes away the houses of the less fortunate.

Review: Primordia – Wormwood Studios

Primordia is an atmospheric point-and-click-game that follows the journey of the android Horatio Nullbuilt and his sidekick Crispin across a post-apocalyptic wasteland following the theft of their ship’s power core.

Second Foundation

Review: Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov

Part three of the Foundation Series – Both the Mule and the Foundation go on a search for the Second Foundation, a mysterious organisation supposedly existing at the other end of the galaxy.

Foundation

Review: Foundation – Isaac Asimov

First part of the Foundation Series – The scholars of the Foundation try to prevent a long dark age after the fall of the Galactic Empire guided by psychohistorical statistical predictions of future events.

Ready Player One

Review: Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Wade is slingshotted from a poor kid to an online hero when he is the first to beat the initial step in a hunt to control the virtual reality video game that public life depends on in this post-apocalyptic world.

The Martian

Review: The Martian – Andy Weir

NASA Astronaut Mark Watney was only supposed to be on Mars for 31 days. When a dust storm almost kills him, the rest of the crew leaves – under the impression that their colleague is actually dead…

A Memory Called Empire

Review: A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine

Part one of the Teixcalaan Duology – Mahit Dzmar, ambassador of a small space station to an interplanetary empire, is sucked into the politics and poetry of the court when she investigates the disappearance of her predecessor.