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Kate says... Everything a military scifi fan could want: Navy discipline, space technology, battles, and this universe's physics. Would your priority for First Contact be politics and career advancement? Well, we're only human. Naval Officer Jack Samson is sent in disgrace to a remote patrol ship on the frontier of known space. When a routine …
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Kate says... Billionaire with his own space company, traumatized ex-astronaut, UFO kook with a talent for data analysis, & government cover-up worthy of a conspiracy theory. If that doesn't sound like hard scifi, fear not: also technology in this thrilling space adventure. The characters are quickly sketched and entirely believable. With a twist on recent …
Kate says... Recently I recommended The Centauri Survivors, a science fiction story of colonization, first contact, and villainy. Want to find out how the story started? For free, you can read the original first chapter, which tells the story of how the Survivors got started . Okay, I suppose the very, very original first chapter …
Kate says... Your new friend, April May, tells you a remarkable story. On a New York City street in the early morning hours, she and another friend, Andy, find a strange robot/statue they assume to be a piece of art. She names it Carl and they make a video about it that goes viral. That's …
Kate says... If you're a fan of gutsy heroes, you'll devour this book. It's easy to imagine yourself in the story and you won't want to put it down. Go ahead and read for hours. Exciting chase on an alien planet and more. Part of the story's depth lies with fathers, both present and absent. …
Kate says... If you like the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is the book for you. The mission - to search for life beneath the thick ice of a deadly moon - is breathtaking, but the story begins with training and equipment tests on Earth, and then a long claustrophobic journey as six astronauts …
Kate says... Will humans travel to strange, yet habitable planets? Will aliens they encounter fit the mold of humans with funny-looking foreheads that's popular in so much scifi? Yes! to the first question. No! to the second. Here's a story to prove it, a long novella. Four astronauts scouting a planet for possible colonization encounter …
Here's a wonderful, imaginative 12-minute video; science fiction that explains a real-world marvel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zofb9791xJQ Just So Stories provide imaginative explanations for puzzling aspects of the natural world. While the phrase is sometimes used mockingly to criticize speculation in science, I'll go back to the original story-telling meaning and say, this short is a wonderful Just …
Kate says... A mercenary and a xenoarchaeologist are out to steal artifacts from the ruins of a lost civilization from under the nose of their own government. But the extinct race's technology still functions, trapping them in a weird world where they encounter a non-humanoid alien. I love the alien and the believable communications problem …
Kate says... I'm an incorrigible skimmer, but I read every word of Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy Kess. The story begins with aliens who have a surprising link to Earth. They've already landed when middle-aged geneticist Marianne Jenner is summoned. She joins a team of earthly scientists working with the aliens to defeat a lethal danger …
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