Sci-Fi

Meet Martha Wells’s snarky AI.

What is The Murderbot Diaries series about?

Written by American author Martha Wells, The Murderbot Diaries is a science-fiction series about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit called Murderbot.

It was successful in overriding its governor module, allowing it to establish independence. Now, Murderbot wants primarily to consume media, especially soap opera, but find itself entangled with human affairs and begins to form friendships and emotional bonds. 

The series won several awards, including multiple Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and Nebula Awards. It also won the American Library Association’s Alex Award and has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

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A lone human soldier in space…

What is the Omega Force series about?

Science-Fiction series coming from Joshua Dalzelle, the Omega Force series tells us the adventures of Jason Burke, a lone human in space who became a soldier.

Jason Burke has linked up with five other aliens to try their luck as hired guns. They are called Omega Force and their mandate is to help those who don’t have the means to help themselves. They never accept a job that would compromise the honor code they live by.

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Soon to be an Apple TV+ show.

What is the Wool series about?

Coming from American writer Hugh Howey who initially self-published the series, Wool started with a short story in 2011. Then came four sequel novellas that were later published as a novel. Ultimately, this became a trilogy called the Silo trilogy.

Silo is a post-apocalyptic/Sci-Fi series that takes us to the future, when the world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside. 

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An epic journey to save humanity.

What is Halo about?

Halo is a military science fiction media franchise created by Bungie and launched in 2001 with the game Halo: Combat Evolved. Following the success of the first game, others followed and the strong sales led to the franchise’s expansion to other media. As part of Microsoft’s multimedia efforts, Microsoft Studios decided to create a tie-in novel for Combat Evolved–and even a TV show recently.

The first book was written by Eric Nylund and published in October 2001. Then, William C. Dietz turned the game itself was turned into a novelization. Nylund wrote additional Halo works and other writers joined: Joseph Staten, Tobias S. Buckell, Karen Traviss, Greg Bear, Matt Forbeck, John Shirley, Troy Denning, and Cassandra Rose Clarke. More than 30 books have been published.

The story takes us in the 26th century, where humanity has colonized many worlds thanks to the development of faster-than-light “slipspace” travel before stumbling upon the hostile alliance of aliens known as the Covenant.

They are composed of a diverse array of species united under the religious worship of the extinct Forerunners and their belief that the Forerunner ring worlds known as Halos will provide a path to salvation, known as the “Great Journey”.

The Covenant is bent on humanity’s destruction and begins an interstellar war.

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