Escape Velocity

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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: Monument Valley – Ustwo Games

Monument Valley is a simple puzzle game where you lead a princess through an impossible, Escher-like landscape. By moving platforms and bridges, you guide her through the beautiful and mysterious ruins of an ancient civilisation.

Review: Wilder Girls – Rory Power

When a mysterious illness started spreading among the pupils and teachers of Raxter Boarding School for girls, the whole of the island was put under strict quarantine. When Hetty’s best friend goes missing, she is determined to find out what happened.

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: VAST Horizon – Fool & Scholar Productions

The Bifrost was meant to transport its passengers to a yet-to-be colonised solar system, but when Dr. Nolira Eck wakes up from stasis, the ship’s systems are malfunctioning and the rest of the crew has disappeared. Assisted by the ship’s AI, Nolira fights to survive and to find out what fate has befallen her crewmembers.

Review: Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas is a collection of six intertwined short stories spanning across different times, settings, genres and styles, sharing themes and references, forming a single tale told through six beginnings and six ends.

Review: Record of a Spaceborn Few – Becky Chambers

Part 3 of the Wayfarer Series – When the Earth became uninhabitable, what was left of humanity sought refuge on the ships of the Exodus Fleet. Born and raised in space, their descendants are having to face difficult choices in their turn.

Review: The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater

Part 1 of the Raven Cycle – Every year on St. Mark’s Eve, Blue Sargant accompanies her clairvoyant mother to a graveyard outside their town to watch a yearly procession of spirits. Since Blue is not clairvoyant herself, she normally cannot see these spirits. But this year is different.

Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Patrick Rothfuss

Spin-off from the Kingkiller Chronicles – Underneath the buildings of The University lies a vast maze of forgotten spaces that no one ever enters. No one, except a girl named Auri who has sought her refuge there and has made it her home. This story is about her.