Month: July 2018

This is the fifteenth Dresden Files novel. That’s a whole lot of nooks in a series. It’s the latest to come out and it’s been over three years so Jim Butcher may be done with the series. He still has mysteries unresolved that he’s hinted at, so I’m hoping he writes at least one more… Read more Skin Game

This is the story of the rise, duplicity, and fall of Theranos. I discovered Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes shortly before John Carreyrou’s Wall Street Journal story brought them down. It probably wasn’t from this Stanford article but this quote came from it and probably went out on the Twitterverse where I soon found… Read more Bad Blood

Ann Leckie’s Provenance is, I believe, the last of the Hugo nominated books for me to read. I liked this one a lot. The story was interesting and kept me reading. I found the use of pronouns a bit hard to get into but got used to it eventually. There seemed to be a kind… Read more Provenance

This is the followup to Ninefox Gambit. The second in what looks like a trilogy. This continues the story from the previous book but while I don’t think it could really be read on its own and does make up a larger story, is more standalone than the shattered earth books, which really felt like… Read more Raven Stratagem (Machineries of Empire) book 2

This is the first book in a series that contains the fourth of the Hugo nominated books I am trying to read this year. Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee, is a very far future novel set in a space during a rebellion. It’s hard to describe really because I had a hell of a… Read more Ninefox Gambit