Full Title: Nether Station
Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Genre: Science Fiction Horror
Published: 2024
Publishing Company: Blackstone Publishing
My Five Star Rating: 4 stars

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Science Fiction That Reads Like Horror

If you like science fiction thrillers with elements of horror, this book is for you. At times it reminded me of Alien, one of my favorite classic movies. For fans of hard SciFi, this isn’t exactly what you’d get from writers like Alastair Reynolds or Stephen Baxter, but it is a phenomenally good balance between believable science and a splendidly terrifying story.

Hard SciFi That Doesn’t Go Too Hard

Kevin J. Anderson is one of my favorite writers precisely for that reason. He tells an incredibly good, believable story without getting bogged down in obscure details of the actual science. I find many authors these days go overboard with that, slowing down the pace of the story immeasurably.

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Full Title: Blood Music
Author: Greg Bear
Genre: Science Fiction
Published: 1985
Publishing Company: First ed. – Arbor House
My Five Star Rating: 5 stars

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One of My Favorite Books

Since I chose a movie with special personal meaning for my first movie review, I will do the same for my first book review. I was a young man when I first read Blood Music, and right away, the book captured my imagination in a way others of its kind had not done before. Easily one of my favorite books, it made me a devoted Greg Bear fan instantly.

A Genre-Defining Novel

Written at a time when the cyberpunk sub-genre was making a big splash on the SciFi scene, Blood Music was the definitive dystopian story when dystopian was yet to be a thing.

You will get a chilling sense of déjà vu when you read this book. The storyline mirrors events that have taken place in the recent past, and it’s even more impressive when you consider Blood Music was written in 1985.

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