To be honest, at first I didn’t think I would like this book because it falls in that category in which everything is just like today’s world except for that one thing. Someone has a superpower, someone has a time machine, that sort of thing. It will make it hard …
Skarbo is an insect. At least in this life – in previous ones he was a human. He chose this body because it is durable, giving him enough time to complete his life’s work: building a large scale model of The Spin. Although he has never visited the articial star …
Probably the final book in the Singularity’s Children series, Reimagination is continuing part three (Conflict) more than it is delivering the promised reimagination. It is still a gripping thriller and it’s good to read how things turn out for the main characters but it’s more an extension on the existing …
The Spin: a vast artificial star system providing the stage for political and other power games. The Hive – a portmanteau of High Value, but equally a true hive – houses a population of slaves forming the economic base of an entire society. These and other examples of what we …
A direct continuation of Singularity’s Children previous two books, Conflict is the story of the old corporate and political powers feeling threatened by decentralized new technology. After her kidnapping Stella has ‘retired into public life’ – living as a celebrity she would rather not have anything to do with her …
*Previous books’ spoiler alert* The Fleet of Knives are on the loose. Their assignment: prevent war and agression in the Multiplicity. Their method: preemtively destroy all war capable vessels. As a result commerce between planets is coming to a halt and societies are crumbling. Former warship the Trouble Dog and …
Disruption is the direct continuation of Denial; we follow Stella Sagong, a young entrepreneur esacping poverty; Niato, the filthy rich idealist; Keith, corporate wage slave turned soldier; and Segi and Zaki, who escaped with their mother to the Islamic Caliphate, which stretches out from Pakistan to Morocco in this alternative …
The Fleet of Knives is a fleet of super fast and armed to the teeth spaceships, accidentally liberated from cold storage when a flying Red Cross equivalent spaceship provided them with the mission to prevent wars and spare lives. It seems the Fleet is entertaining some radicle ideas on how …
Denial, disruption, conflict and reimagination are change’s four phases, according to a book Anosh takes from his office after being layed of for a technicality. The economy is breaking down fast and unemployment is measured in tens of percents. How will Anosh and Ayşe care for their family? Naito is …
In deel twee maakten we kennis met het zich supersnel ontwikkelende ras de Gwo’th. In Destroyer leren we deze wezens beter kennen. De Gwo’th zijn zeewezens die zich kunnen combineren tot een biologische computer. Met hun superieure telescopische blik spotten ze een armada aan oorlogszuchtige Pak die op mensen, de …