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A jack of all trades, cybersec strategy professional, mental health and positivity nerd. Was born in Russia, escaped the circus over a decade ago and lived in great many places since then. A sci-fi aficionado, my childhood was full of Stanislaw Lem, Ray Bradbury, Heinlein, Asimov, Lukyanenko, Harry Harrison, Niven, and many other brilliant writers from the 50s~80s. Currently on the lookout for sci-fi murder mysteries similar to Altered Carbon and Hamilton's Great North Road.
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Coffee rated All Systems Red: 1 star
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
Coffee rated The Ringworld Throne (Ringworld, #3): 1 star
The Ringworld Throne (Ringworld, #3) by Larry Niven
The Ringworld Throne is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, first published in 1996. It is the …
Coffee rated The Ringworld Engineers: 3 stars
The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven (Ringworld, #2)
A return voyage to the astonishing world of Larry Niven’s Ringworld, with even more remarkable adventures and surprises, and a …
Ringworld by Larry Niven (S.F.Masterworks S.)
Coffee commented on Judas unchained by Peter F. Hamilton (The second book in the Commonwealth Saga series)
The previous novel, Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth …
Coffee rated Judas unchained: 5 stars
Judas unchained by Peter F. Hamilton (The second book in the Commonwealth Saga series)
The previous novel, Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. Robust, peaceful, and confident, …
Coffee rated Pandora's Star: 4 stars
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as …
Coffee rated Heaven's Reach: 5 stars
Heaven's Reach by David Brin (The Uplift Saga, #6)
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his …
Coffee rated Infinity's Shore: 4 stars
Infinity's Shore by David Brin (The Uplift Saga, #5)
Coffee rated Brightness Reef: 3 stars
Brightness Reef by David Brin (The Uplift Saga, #4)
Coffee rated Startide Rising: 3 stars
Startide Rising by David Brin (The Uplift Saga, #2)
David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983) This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth) crew of neo-dolphins and humans …
Sundiver by David Brin (A Bantam spectra book)
In all the universe, no species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron—except perhaps mankind. …
Coffee reviewed Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
A solid sci-fi whodunit
4 stars
If you can find it in you to overlook the fact that Hamilton is very clearly a conservative white English man, and subsequently ignore everything that stems from that fact, this book can be highly enjoyable. I stumbled across this book right around the time I watched Knives Out for the Nth time and got a sudden craving for a space whodunit. I had already read Sundiver by that time so that ship had sailed, and this was the next in the list of recommendations. This book absolutely delivered on that specific front (of being a space whodunit; there was space, and somebody dun did it), and boy did it take me a while to get through on account of the astonishing 1000 pages of non-stop worldbuilding. Speaking of worldbuilding, it's on the more detailed side. Locations, technology, little slice-of-life scenes help this world appear more grounded, and the 50-something …
If you can find it in you to overlook the fact that Hamilton is very clearly a conservative white English man, and subsequently ignore everything that stems from that fact, this book can be highly enjoyable. I stumbled across this book right around the time I watched Knives Out for the Nth time and got a sudden craving for a space whodunit. I had already read Sundiver by that time so that ship had sailed, and this was the next in the list of recommendations. This book absolutely delivered on that specific front (of being a space whodunit; there was space, and somebody dun did it), and boy did it take me a while to get through on account of the astonishing 1000 pages of non-stop worldbuilding. Speaking of worldbuilding, it's on the more detailed side. Locations, technology, little slice-of-life scenes help this world appear more grounded, and the 50-something characters that Hamilton pushes around mostly act consistently with their described personality and make use of the information that is available to them.
