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The final book in the Three Body Trilogy, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past)Â does not disappoint. Once again my mind is reeling from the barrage of amazing ideas and concepts that blasted me one after the other after the other as I listened to this book. I don't even know where to begin. If you've …
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Ursula K. Le Guin did, in The Dispossessed, which I just finished listening to. This book was described to me as the anti Atlas Shrugged, which made me instantly buy it without hearing anything else. It holds up to this description by being of reasonable length, by having realistic, likable characters, and by describing ideas …
I just finished the Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia E. Butler, and am somewhat shocked that I've not heard of her before now. After reaching the last page and hearing the narrator say 'first published in 1989' I was even more startled. How have I gone most of my life without hearing about this series or author, …
This week was the three-year anniversary of the day I finished the first draft of my first novella, Iapetus Shift. That's right, the same novella I just published last month. It took me about three months to type out the 30,000 word draft, but over two years of it sitting in my metaphorical drawer before I …
Hi Everyone! Both of my short stories are free for a limited time! Huzzah! If you have an amazon account, please click here and check them out. Even if you don't end up reading, downloads will help get visibility. And if you do read them and like them, if you can find it in your heart to …
Jonas David 