Tag: Sci-Fi Books Review

Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.

Ive heard a lot of good things about this book on the internet, which was the main reason why I have chosen to buy and reading this book, I gotta admit that this book is one of those way too overhyped books which I regret reading. 

The plot in this book had a lot of potential to actually being good. But in my opinion this book has way too events and characters to keep track of which made it very confusing to me personally. Because the author just bombards us with a truck load of information and characters at once. In my opinion it would have been better if the author tried to ease us as readers to all of the information which is relevant to this book rather than just throw all of those informations at once at us. 

The plot in this book was very predictable and contained a lot of generic SCI-FI jargon which didn’t let the plot anywhere, which really made this book disappointed by this book. Because the plot in this book had a fair share of potential which apparently the author decided to trash instead of use in this book.

The characters in this book are pretty shallow. There are too many characters which we get their point of few from, which means we don’t spend a lot of time with each of the characters in this book. Which means we don’t get a lot of sense of the personalities and quirks each character has, which made them seem very shallow and boring to be very honest here. At the same time the different point of views we get in this book, makes it seem like the author couldn’t decide who was the main character in this book and which character weren’t as relevant to the story as others. 

All of the characters in this book have the same pattern of thinking and doing things on, which made me constantly question which point of view we are currently following in this book. Which also made it very hard for me personally telling the characters apart in this book because they all seemed the same to me personally. Because there was nothing making the characters standout from each other and actually be likable in ay way.

A lot of the chapters in this book start off with describing different environments to just switch it without a warning to a character minding their own business and going to talk to someone else. Which made me question why the lengthy descriptions at the beginning of most chapters were even there if they weren’t that relevant in this book.

The writing style in this book was very generic in this book but also very high school textbook like. Which made me think that the author didn’t care about this book to actually make it fun to read. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

This book gotta be the best SCI-FI book I’ve read so far. It will be hard to take the number 1 spot away from this book.

This book had Aliens, space travel, real life sciences, AI, incredible characters, even better plot which means that this book is really something to hype about. This book is my second book by the author which I’ve read and after reading this book it is official that Andy Weir became one of my all time favourite authors.

There are few characters here, but the characters we get in this book are behind the words because they are incredible and so much more. The main character Ryland Grace is just a school teacher but he is a genius but also funny at times which for me personally is the greatest combination. 

The plot here is mind-blowing. The plot in this book is what I’ve expect from a SCI-FI book. The plot here contains real life sciences but also aliens, space travel and AI which really made my life reading this book. 

The writing style is very incredible and I don’t have words to describe it. It felt like the author was reading my mind and he knew what words to use to make me very interested, engaged and have this book read in two sittings.

This book also covers the friendship despite the odds which really made me love this book even more. Because incredible friendships in books made me love Harry Potter books and it is what made me start reading books.

For me personally the beginning and the end was the best part of this book because they both leave you confused and makes you wonder what happens next.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.

To be honest this book is very generic Sci-Fi book where aliens invades the earth. However it was published in 1897 at the time where this kind of books weren’t very popular as they are now on days. But Im not the biggest fan of alien themed books and movies but Im still gonna try to find the one I might one day like.

However this book doesn’t focus as much on aliens as it focus on the fact that humans are the kings of the earth. Which unfortunately is the reality which shouldn’t ever exist. But this shows how big assholes humans are.

The plot here was okay but very generic for every Sci-Fi book and movie about alines, but I will give this book points for being written over 100 years ago when there were almost no Sci-Fi books about aliens.

The writing style in this book has a very thick old English, but it really suits the plot in this book. And it was very advanced when you compare it with modern day Sci-Fi books and movies

However the aliens in this book aren’t small, gray species but rather these giant robots which looks like dogs made off metal and new technology in a way. Which really surprised me in a good way. But still I just couldn’t find a answer to how they were created. Of course the real aliens could have created these space robot digs but if they have the technology to create destruction robots then why not came down to earth by themselves?

To be honest I have a lot of questions to the plot in this book. The robot dogs which are destruction robots which I’ve said above is one example of my questions for this book.

This book is very short, I read it in one long sitting which I probably shouldn’t have done.

This book isn’t scary as some people on the internet say, this book is just another Sci-Fi books about aliens. Which means that it is very generic even thou it was published in 1897.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.  Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

I gotta say that this needs to be the best Sci-Fi book I’ve read so far. I don’t have words to describe how good this book was. 

I read this book in one day because I couldn’t stop reading it because it was so engaging, interesting and enjoyable. And I just needed to find out what will happen next to our main character who was left on Mars. 

The writing style in this book is complete amazing. It felt like it was written by an expert who just knew what words to use to get us engaged in the book and keep reading. 

The ending was a little bit boring and the story dragged little bit. Which really annoyed me because if the ending was different this book would easily be my all time favourite book. 

I need to give this book points for having real-world scientific applications being incredible well detailed which really was the base for my love for this book. Because it is a fictional book with real life science in a way. 

The plot in this book was very amazing and very intense and that’s how I like the plot to be. The plot gets funny at times and it is easily a different than any other sci-fi novels which really made me give this book even more points.

The characters here are very well written. Of course there are some characters better written than others but they all are amazing. There are some characters who were flat but still they were okay for the most part.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.  But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.

This book is a mix between SCI-FI, YA and dystopia book and all of the events takes place in 2044. 

I read this book in two sittings. It is short but it is very addictive and you will have hard time putting this book down. Which really means how good book this is. 

The plot in this book is amazing. It is about a virtual game and a dystopia world which really in this book is an amazing mix. The plot have many layers to it, which really proves that it is one of the best Sci-Fi books every written in my opinion at least. 

This book really spoke to the gamer part of me, and it really made me want that something like the Oasis existed in real life. This book fully awaken the nerd in me and that’s why I loved this book so much as I did. 

There are very few characters in this book. But all of them are very good and they all feel like real human beings which I personally love when it happens in books. 

The characters are easy to see through and see who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. And there is the battle between good and bad like in every Sci-Fi book but when it comes to this book I don’t mind it. 

The writing style here is amazing. The language in this book is very easy. 

The ending here is a little bit confusing if you ask me. But it is still very good and it really is the ending we truly deserved in this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker series. 

This book is a collection of 5 novels and one short story in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Ive already review each of these 6 stories last summer. So today I will be talking about the series as a whole due to this book containing the entire series. 

I really wanted to like this series because I’ve heard so many good things about this series, and so many people happen to love this series. But to be fully honest this series just doesn’t work for me. And after reading this whole series I feel very disappointed because I lean more to not liking it.

I made one mistake while reading this series, which is that I’ve read the whole series within 2 weeks. Which I’ve learned isn’t a thing to do because you might need time to process what you read.

The humour in this series was pretty good in the first book and the second book. But when I got to the third book and the rest of this series I became very tired and annoying. 

The whole series would have been better if it ended after the fourth book and just skip writing and publishing the fifth book. 

The fifth book is the last book in this series and it the weakest book in the whole series. Because it feels more like a book about family and past drama rather than a sci-fi book as the rest of this series. 

While reading this series, I came to be vert confused far too many times to count. Which really makes me not like this series even more.

The characters in this series, are very hard to tell something about them. Since in the first book they are very good but as the series goes on I came to dislike them more and more. 

The writing style in this series is very good in the first book but the same thing happens as with the characters. The writing style becomes worse and worse as the series continues.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. 

This book is the last book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. And it’s the weakest book in the series. 

The humour in this book finds a new level of just not working for me, and any attempts on humour in this book I find very awkward and very boring. 

The plot in this book did had its good moments but these moments were very rare and they ended very fast. Which really annoyed me because I would have given it so much higher rating if these goods moments were longer and more frequent. 

Other than that the plot been very boring and it felt too long, because it wasn’t anything happening other than drama from the past. 

The characters were okay for the most part. But at times they make very stupid and absurd decisions which really have blown my mind.

The writing style here was bad and okay at the same time. Which is really hard to explain because there were pages which have been good but also there were pages which have been very bad.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a novella by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy universe. It doesn’t appear as a standalone work, but is included with several collections. The story is a prequel to the events in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and has the young Zaphod Beeblebrox working as a salvage ship operator. He guides some bureaucrats to a crashed spaceship which may be leaking some hazardous materials. The bureaucrats are determined to “make it safe”. The comic asides in the story include some of the time travel paradoxes which are a common running theme in Adams’ SF work, and plenty of material about lobsters

This short story is a prequel to the first book in this series. Which really surprised me in a good way of course. 

The characters in this short story were okay but I didn’t care about them at all. I wish that they could have got more time in a way.

The plot in this short story was really interesting and it annoyed me that it was so short. 

I expected this short story to be bad, I don’t know why. However it have surprised me because it was good. 

This short story was interesting, entertaining and intriguing. But at the same time I felt like there was something missing in it.

The writing style here was okay. But it had the potential to be so much better which the author didn’t use.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.

To be fully honest this book is the weakest book in this series so far. Of course I have one book and on short story left in this series so everything can happen in that time. 

My main problem with this book is that its no longer a sci-fi book as the rest of this series but instead it turned out to be a love story book. Which really annoyed me.

The characters here, I came to hate them in this book. I also found them to be very boring and awkward at times which really pissed me off because I wanted to like them again after the previous book rather than to dislike them even more.

The writing style are worse than in the previous book. Which really made me even more bored of this book. 

In my opinion this book was very boring.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

To be fully honest after reading this book I can honestly admit that I don’t understand the hype with this series. In my opinion it’s okay and nothing more than that. 

The plot in this book was weaker than the previous book, and somehow I found the majority of this book edging on the side with boredom. Of course it had some good moments here and there but nothing more than that. 

The writing style here were okay. I wish it could have been better because it would have made this book and the entire plot better. 

The characters here, I became bored of them pretty quickly which I don’t know why. It felt like the character development didn’t happen and that the characters were just as the same as they were in the first book. 

In a way this book felt very confusing and I found myself zoning out while reading this book and starting to think about other things than this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5