João-Luis rated Children of Time: 5 stars
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …
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João-Luis rated Cloud Atlas: 4 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …
João-Luis rated Caliban's War: 4 stars
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #2)
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered …
João-Luis rated Only human: 4 stars
Sylvain Neuvel: Only human (2018)
Only human by Sylvain Neuvel (Book three of The Themis files)
"World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs …
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …
João-Luis rated Waking gods: 5 stars
Waking gods by Sylvain Neuvel (Book two of the Themis files)
"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground …
João-Luis rated The Hod King: 4 stars
The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft (The Books of Babel, #3)
Thomas Senlin and his crew have been separated following the orders of the mysterious Sphinx. Meanwhile, the enslaved hods climb …
João-Luis rated Arm of the Sphinx: 5 stars
Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft (Books of Babel, #2)
"The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced …
João-Luis rated Senlin Ascends: 5 stars
Senlin Ascends by Josiah D Bancroft, Josiah Bancroft (The Books of Babel, #1)
"The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel of the Silk Age. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds …
João-Luis rated The War of the Worlds: 5 stars
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the …
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6) by Jules Verne
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the …
João-Luis rated Leviathan Wakes: 5 stars
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our …
João-Luis rated The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics: 5 stars
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics by H. G. Wells (Duplicate), H. G. Wells
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …
João-Luis rated 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1): 5 stars
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently …
João-Luis rated Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit: 3 stars
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit by Corey Olsen
"The Hobbit is one of the most widely read and best-loved books of the twentieth century. In December 2012, millions …