The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemison, 2016 Well I enjoyed The Fifth Season, despite having misgivings about the seemingly gratuitous violence and gore, so I went ahead and started on The Obelisk Gate but I couldn't keep going to the finish. Somewhere around page 355 (out of 407) I decided I'd had enough, that the author was …

The Fifth Season N. K. Jemison, 2015 Jonathan recommended the Torn Earth Trilogy to me, and I tore through book one. The backdrop of the story is a world with frequent geologic unrest. So much of day-to0-day life is predicated on needing to survive cataclysm at just about any moment. In that respect it's reminscent of …

Dune & Dune Messiah Frank Herbert, 1965 Some neighbors went for a sort of men's-afternoon-out to see the new Dune 2 movie, which got me thinking, so I went ahead and watched the recent Dune 1 movie, and then #2 as well. As action films go they're on the good side of the spectrum thanks to a cerebral bent, but at …