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The aliens are here ... and they want municipal services! Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a …
For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the …
Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
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The security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry!
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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells’ New York Times and …
“Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well’s bestselling and Hugo award-winning …
Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be …
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
“Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well’s bestselling and Hugo award-winning …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be …
Do you feel stuck financially? Are you working more, trying to spend less, and still not seeing results? If so, …
I've reached for it after reading the whole Frank Herbert saga once again - and tried extending, for the first time, with Brian's continuation. This was a huge disappointment. This book is nothing like Frank's (with his wife Beverly's editing) writing.
I've reached for it after reading the whole Frank Herbert saga once again - and tried extending, for the first time, with Brian's continuation. This was a huge disappointment. This book is nothing like Frank's (with his wife Beverly's editing) writing.
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its …
First: William Hope is a brilliant narrator for this audiobook version. His classical US accent lines really well with the, well, classical US characters in the book.
Asimov published Foundation and Empire in 1952, 7 years after the end of World War 2. Earth at the time had about two dozen computers, one per each major country. That is, electronic computers - and they weren't even called that yet. A "computer" at the time still meant a human who performs calculations in an office, often with the use of a mechanical calculator device - the world still employed hundreds of thousands of them.
This is significant for the book. Once you realise it is chronologically much closer to the XIX century than to today, you can better appreciate how imaginative it truly is. But you can also much more easily understand why everything feels so feudal (including the …
First: William Hope is a brilliant narrator for this audiobook version. His classical US accent lines really well with the, well, classical US characters in the book.
Asimov published Foundation and Empire in 1952, 7 years after the end of World War 2. Earth at the time had about two dozen computers, one per each major country. That is, electronic computers - and they weren't even called that yet. A "computer" at the time still meant a human who performs calculations in an office, often with the use of a mechanical calculator device - the world still employed hundreds of thousands of them.
This is significant for the book. Once you realise it is chronologically much closer to the XIX century than to today, you can better appreciate how imaginative it truly is. But you can also much more easily understand why everything feels so feudal (including the progressive Foundation). If Asimov didn't include Bayta, a woman from the Foundation, as one of the main characters, the book might have aged much worse.
