Readworthy’s This Month’s Best Science Fiction
FROM READWORTHY
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.
Agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull Sara aside and inform her that she is at imminent risk of harming her husband. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers
Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That’s what they told him, anyway.
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Jane suffers a series of strange episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations, and an inexplicable sense of dread. Jane suddenly goes missing. A day later she is found unconscious in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, in the midst of what seems to be an episode of dissociative fugue;
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FROM SF REVU
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Review by Paul Haggerty
Tor Books Hardcover / eBook ISBN/ITEM#: 9780765389091
Date: 25 March 2025
Links: Author’s Website / Amazon Link / Show Official Info /
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi is–different. It’s a story, certainly, but not exactly a novel. Rather, it’s an exploration of what people do in the face of the impossible and unimaginable.
Given the impossible premise, the purpose of the book is not to find a way to save the day, but rather to explore how people would react to such an event when there is no way to change it. While there is a small cast of characters that keep popping up, most of the chapters are vignettes of normal people from varying walks of life, ranging from students, to astronauts, to politicians, to billionaires, all dealing or not dealing with this new reality.
Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request
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In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple life. When the cops show up at his door looking for data on a murder he’s not even aware has happened, things get interesting
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Rule One: You can only travel to a point within your lifetime.
Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.
Rule Three: You can only observe. The rules cannot be broken. A scientist has unlocked the mysteries of time travel.
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Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward travels through time on sponsored expeditions to the past to secure precious artifacts moments before they are lost to history. In a spectacular failure twenty years ago, he lost both the menorah of the second temple.
When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore…
Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade-but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory.Her journey back to the revolution soon takes her to Venice, where the Domino Programme has uncovered evidence of a secret Scion plan.
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Centuries in the future, the Galactic Authority reigns over millions of advanced civilizations throughout the cosmos. From deep within the Galactic Core, the Authority’s principal Mind has won the allegiance of myriad nations, offering security, connection, and access to a network of interstellar Gates in exchange for compliance.
When Darby finds himself unemployed and in need of a fresh start, he moves back to the small Illinois town he left behind. But Oak Falls has changed almost as much as he has since he left. One thing is familiar: In Between Books, Darby’s refuge growing up and eventual high school job. When he walks into the bookstore….
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