Becky Chambers I've now read three books by Becky Chambers, and they're all good. I feel I'm in safe hands with anything by her I might pick up. Two of the books are adult science-fiction, and one is young adult (science) fiction, but from my perwpective it's easy to see a common theme in all of them: Portraits 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 …