I, Robot
I, Robot is a collection of interconnected stories exploring the Three Laws of Robotics. Anyone with even a passing interest in science fiction or robotics will have heard of Asimov’s laws and they have continued to be influential over 65 years later. The book is…
All the Birds in the Sky
One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant. Probably not, though. I loved this tale of when magic and science collide, full of humour, love and commentary on our modern life. It’s the second…
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World After an Apocalypse
If you survived the apocalypse would you know what to do next? How would you rebuild civilisation? This book aims to put in the hands of the survivors crucial knowledge that will kick-start technological advancement, but also keep them fed and healthy. I read The…
The Ballroom
She’d heard of it. Since she was small. If you ever did anything stupid: the asylum. For the lunatics. The paupers. They’ll send you to Sharston, and you’ll never come out. In an asylum on the Yorkshire moors, a dance is held once a week…
Revival: You’re Among Friends
Revival is a “rural noir” comic series by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton (with additional illustrations by Mark Englert). Volume one was included in one of the Image Comics Humble Bundles that I’ve bought over the years and, with an intention to read more graphic…
Previously, on Bournemouth Book Club…
I’ve been a bit of a moany pants about book group reads lately, generally we’ve not been reading books I’ve been that excited by. Perhaps I’ve been judging them before I even get going but honestly, these two books weren’t great hits with the group…
Salt to the Sea
Germany was finally telling people what they should have said months ago. Run for your lives. Salt to the Sea follows a group of characters in the harsh winter of 1945, travelling across what was once Prussia in order to secure passage on boats which…
13 Minutes
Natasha Howland had been dead for 13 minutes when she’s resuscitated. She can’t remember how she ended up in the icy river. She’s certain it wasn’t a suicide attempt and she doesn’t think it was an accident. But who would want to hurt her, the…
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Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…