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Eternals: To Defy the Apocalypse by Charles Knauf My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think this the end to the story of the dreaming celestial. I don't read Marvel much. I actually followed Jack Kirby with this series. The Eternals were created by Jack Kirby, and made their first appearance in The Eternals #1 (July 1976). In 1970, Jack Kirby left Marvel Comics to work at DC Comics, where he began the saga of the New Gods, an epic story involving mythological and science fiction concepts, and planned to have a definite ending. However, the saga was left incomplete after the cancellation of the titles. Kirby then began working on The Eternals when he returned to Marvel. The Eternals' saga was thematically similar to the New Gods' I also read and still continue to read the New Gods. View all my reviews

Lágrimas en la lluvia by Rosa Montero My rating: 4 of 5 stars Like Tears in the Rain" by Rosa Montero. I read the book in the original language which is Castilian. Here are my thoughts on the first book of a trilogy that was recommended by a friend. My friend is an author in her own rights. She has recently tasted science fiction and is enjoying it. So I won't spoil things for her :-). The story is based on the Philip K Dick Universe. He was a very interesting author with serious mental issues. Nobody perfect, you will see these issues in his writings and books. The entire setting for this particular book branches out from his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". It was later Rewritten as Blade Runner and continuous in Blade Runner 2049. There have also been various books written stemming from that universe; not all of them follow a sequential timeline. In the original book, The Androids were made using organic material, this is a contradiction of the defi...

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Cat Who Walks Through Walls... Robert A. Heinlein As I read more of his novels, I realize we are walking into a multiverse. A more realistic multiverse. In fact, Wiki calls it the Heinlein multiverse. In a previous book, I read from the author "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" We read about a computer/AI that became a singularity (self-awareness) The AI-assisted with freeing the moon from the subjection of the Earth. The singularity has many names. In the "mistress" book it is named Mike but it is also known as Adam Seline. In "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" there is a human group that belongs to "The Circle". Their purpose is to of course better the human race in all the timelines where humans exist, even though the histories of each timeline do not match up (a real characteristic of a multiverse from a physics point of view.) In this particular novel, to accompl...

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 2 of 5 stars (just a note I use voice to text because I have a neurological disorder it becomes difficult for me to type, sad to say that's a program that I am using will put capitals in the wrong places the program may believe that I am speaking a title where a sentence of few words need to be capitalized it's become tiresome to me to hunt these down, therefore, I ask your forgiveness for my improper grammar) My thoughts on the Novel. Like many other science fiction novels that have to do with colonies, this one is no exception to the rule. In dozens of sci-fi stories, the plot is basically the same colonies separate from the planet that spawned them; in this particular novel the colony is about the Moon, of course, they called themselves Lunies from Luna. It is an entertaining novel but it is not spectacular. I have read many of Heinlein's books, and he seems fascinated with group marriages, or as we know it...

Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 3 of 5 stars Revolt in 2100 is a 1953 science fiction collection by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, part of his Future History series. Interestingly when one looks at social political items in sci-fi what comes to mind is Isaac Asimov with his foundation series We know his foundation series is based on the Roman Empire and the decay from within. Robert Heinlein talks about the future in the United States. It's interesting because in the United States you have a lot of different groups of people that have different philosophies. Religion, Science and Atheism, etc. Heinlein wrote stories for his series in the middle of the 1940s and thought about what would happen if the United States became a theocracy. The short novel, "If This Goes On is a story about a rebellion against The theocracy. Wiki writes this " The Story served as the vehicle for Heinlein to criticize the authoritarian potential of Protestant Christian fun...

Neuromancer by William Gibson My rating: 3 of 5 stars My thoughts on Neuromancer. Neuromancer was written by William Gibson, of course, if one looks up Google and Goodreads you would probably see all the all reviews about the story. This is your classical cyberpunk story. Wiki defines cyberpunk: "Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of low-life and high tech"[1] featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order" In fact, Neuromancer actually throws cyberpunk into a subgenre of science fiction. Cybernetics is a way of life, the interconnection of the artificial and the organic is combined very well. The author creates new terminology to define certain aspects of a cybernetic world. For example, the term 'Construct' is used to describe the person...

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book remind me of the biblical account of Joseph. Which brings up the age-old question where do science fiction authors get their ideas? Doing some research, Heinlein said he was inspired by Rudyard Kipling. I made the comparison with the biblical account of Joseph because of the similarities. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and he passed from owner to owner until he became the slave of the Pharaoh and later on became an important person... the second in command of all of Egypt. The main character of Heinlein was sold into slavery at a very young age was also passed from owner to owner and with time he was the heir of space ship construction company. The sub genre of this type of science fiction story is called juvenile, I guess today it is known as young adult science fiction like The hunger Games or Divergent. It is a good story and it is entertaining I would definitely recommend it to young adul...