Hello, it is Saturday and time of another awesome bookish meme!
Jana created Spell the Month in Books on her blog Reviews from the Stacks! This fun game begins on the first Saturday of each month, but you can play anytime during the month. It is simple: just spell the current month with books.
This month’s theme is: Science Fiction
M– eet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
I just finished this book yesterday, and a review is available on my website. If you are interested, just click on the cover to read it.
A–nnihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
I am really excited about this book. Also, I recently bought it, so I can’t wait to read it. Been hearing only good things about it.
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction (2014)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for years. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Expeditions into Area X have ended in disaster or death.
In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the latest expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and the narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover lifeforms that surpass understanding. But it’s the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything.
R–ed Rising by Pierce Brown
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.
Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies… even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
C– The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. Asking their machine that can do anything to do nothing almost destroys the universe. Lem creates other cybernetic triumphs – laser-eyed beasts, dragons of improbability, electronic bards, and involuted story-telling machines that never finish a tale – brilliantly funny examples of his talent for intellectual slapstick, bizarre invention, and keen insight.
‘The most completely successful of his books… here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe’ – Boston Globe
H–ollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when faced with a terminal illness, he’s willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began…but only if he can survive Hollow World.
Welcome to the future and a new sci-fantasy thriller from the bestselling author of The Riyria Revelations.
As always this is so much fun! Till the next one and Happy Reading 🙂
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