SF is a genre with a tendency to forget its own history. Award winners stay in print; most everything else quietly disappears. This blog is a personal project to read through a backlog I’ve been accumulating for years — the canonical (Hugo and Nebula winners, Clarke and BSFA nominees) alongside the overlooked and the obscure: New Wave novels that haven’t been reprinted in decades, vintage paperback originals, the books that influenced everything but aren’t themselves much read.
I read in no particular order — a 1968 New Wave novel one week, a contemporary space opera the next. The TBR is wide-ranging enough that I’ll keep finding new corners of it for years.
Each review is a few paragraphs and a rating out of five. I’ll tell you the premise, what the book is doing thematically, whether it works, and whether I think it’s worth your time. I don’t pad reviews with plot summary and I don’t avoid spoilers when they’re essential to the argument.
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