Elaine Chung
When Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham started to collaborate, turning Franck s long-running role-playing game into a novel called
Still Franck and Abraham persevered, selling Leviathan Wakes to Orbit Books under the pen name James S.A. Corey. When the book was published, the front cover sported a quote from George R.R. Martin: It s been too long since we ve had a really kickass space opera.
Now, of course,
Leviathan Wakes has been followed by eight sequels and a TV show,
The Expanse, whose fifth season ends tonight. And the shelves at your local bookstore are crammed with kickass space operas by authors like Valerie Valdes, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, Yoon Ha Lee, Arkady Martine, Kameron Hurley, Nicky Drayden, Karen Lord, Tim Pratt, John Scalzi, Nnedi Okorafor, and Karen Osborne.
One hundred thousand years in the future, humanity is but one race among many providing officers to the Federated Stars’ Interstellar Patrol. Although little inconvenienced by plausible science, the Patrol bears a weighty responsibility, for the Milky Way and the other Island Universes are realms subject to entropy’s harsh rule. Again and again the Patrol encounters desperate civilizations endangered by the impending demise of their homes from dimming solar systems to comets losing their charge to nebulas short on angular momentum and again and again the Patrol ushers the unfortunates they meet into final extinction whenever their efforts to survive endanger the members of the Federated Stars. Which it seems they always do.
Byron and Pine Island leading the way in new home construction near Rochester. Written By: Brian Todd | ×
The green area shows a new area adjacent to Pine Island s elementary school at the corner of New Haven Road and Olmsted County Road 5 where the city of Pine Island has approved a development agreement with Bigelow Homes to create buildable lots for 42 total homes. (Courtesy City of Pine Island)
PINE ISLAND In a quick, special meeting, the Pine Island City Council approved a development deal to create a new subdivision. That New Haven Road going (on the west side of the development) is kind of a crappy road, said Mayor Rod Steele, who gaveled in his last city council meeting Wednesday night. It hasn’t been well maintained. This developer asked the city to develop a 10-ton blacktop road there.
This article is part of three-part series on summer reads for young people after a very unique year.
As this tumultuous year comes to a close, the Australian summer is an ideal time to relax and escape through reading.
Like many people, Australian teenagers have experienced higher rates of psychological distress this year as a result of the COVID pandemic. Reading is one way for teens to remove themselves, if only temporarily, from their current stresses.
As fantasy writer Neil Gaiman said:
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
Young adult novels also present alternative ways of being and resolving crises. This is because a defining characteristic of young adult books relates to power. In novels for young adults, teen protagonists learn how to use their power to navigate social situations, whether in families, schools, their community or, indeed, other worlds.
Amazing Audiobooks (#AA2021) Nominees Round Up, December 16 Edition
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We Are Not Free by Traci Chee; narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Christopher Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Aishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, and Terry Kitagawa
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780358343561
Fourteen Japanese American teens are cruelly taken from their San Francisco homes to internment camps purportedly to protect the U.S. west coast from Japanese espionage or sabotage during World War II. The Nissei’s stories start the same, but have many different outcomes as they make their choices and too many choices are made for them.