In this second Book of Ember, the people of the city of Ember have escaped their dying underground city, and found their way back above ground. Some long ago Disaster has wasted the land above ground, but only a few days walk away, they find the village of Sparks, where the people there have finally […]
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This book continues the story of Beggars in Spain, where a few humans have been engineered to no longer need sleep, and these Sleepless change society in many ways, for both good and ill. This book deals with the consequences of the actions of the Sleepless, but they play a surprisingly small role in the
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Humanity has been taken over by a race called the Souls – parasites that insert themselves into a human’s body, and then live their lives. The original memories of the body are intact, but the person is gone. The Souls have been on Earth for a while, so there are very few ‘wild’ humans left.
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I’ve been away from Pern for a while – it was one of my favorite series when I was a teenager, and I’d left off with The Dolphins of Pern – where Thread was seemingly eradicated, and Pern was learning to live with that reality. It seemed a natural enough stopping point, but there were
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It’s two hundred years in the future, and after a number of man made calamities, people have found the way to keep the peace is the operation to make people Pretty. At age 16, the operation makes everyone beautiful, and improves everyone’s health. What they don’t know is that at the same time, their brains
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Sometimes, it’s not always good to read a sequel immediately open reading the book that came before it. Having just read The Hidden Worlds, I had certain ideas of how the two main characters – Linnea and Iain – should be, and Linnea let me down a bit in this book. In the first book
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. Hundreds of years ago, a race of nanorobots called the Cold Minds took over the Earth, and humanity was only saved by a group of Pilots that were able to bring the remnants of the population to the Hidden Worlds, where the Cold Minds could not find
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. I am pretty late to the whole Hunger Games phenomenon, but I finally got my hands on the first book. I can totally understand how this is the next big thing since Twilight. This is a post-apocalyptic tale, where the US has morphed into a country called Panem,
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This book is billed as a sequel to The Dying Earth, but unlike that book, follows a single narrative, instead of being a collection of unrelated short stories. In practice, its locations are so varied that it could be seen as a collection of short stories, but there is a single central character. That character
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This collection of science fiction and fantasy stories was built around the single premise that the main character must be a woman warrior. There’s an interesting mix of stories here, some about war, some about the battles of real life. A couple of the sci fi stories featured some flavor of war being fought remotely,
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