Tag: first contact

  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    This was a huge letdown and I have been trying all day to figure out why. I think in the end it’s kind of death by a thousand cuts. It did lots of things competently, but nothing particularly well, and the sum of it all is unsatisfying and forgettable. It’s a watered-down imitation of much…

  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    I read this in high school in the 1990s. It really holds up. A classic among classics, really. Like The Martian Chronicles, this originally was a bunch of short stories. When you look at the dates that these stories were published, the ideas here are eons ahead of their time. Looking forward to the next one.