2021

The Lost Fleet: Fearless by Jack Campbell

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The novel “The Lost Fleet: Fearless” by Jack Campbell was published for the first time in 2007. It’s the second in The Lost Fleet series and follows “The Lost Fleet: Dauntless”.

Captain John Geary is looking for the right course to bring home the Alliance fleet he found himself commanding due to a number of circumstances. A pause in a seemingly unimportant system leads to a battle against small enemy forces and above all leads to the discovery of a prison camp.

The rescue of the prisoners of war is a success but creates an unexpected problem with the discovery that the ex-prisoner of the highest rank is the legendary Captain Francesco Falco, aka Fighting Falco. Convinced that he has the seniority necessary to take command of the fleet, when he realizes that he can’t compete with John Geary, Falco tries to influence him by proposing a much more aggressive strategy. Can the fleet work with two legends who have extremely different ideas about how to run it?

Binti Omnibus by Nnedi Okorafor

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The novella “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor was published for the first time in 2015. It’s the first work in the Binti series. It won the Hugo, Nebula, and Nommo awards as the best novella of the year.

Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu ​​Kaipka of Namib is only 16 when she decides to go to Oomza University. For her, this means running away from home because the Himba are very attached to their land, and everyone in Binti’s family assumes she won’t go. After the initial tension, traveling to another planet seems like a great adventure to Binti, at least until the Meduse board the starship and kill the other passengers. Binti’s amulet seems for some reason capable of killing the Meduse and allows her to communicate with them.

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The Paratwa by Christopher Hinz (Italian edition)

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The novel “The Paratwa” by Christopher Hinz was published for the first time in 1991. It’s the third book of the Paratwa series and follows “Ash Ock”.

On the colonies orbiting the Earth, already struck by the attacks of the Paratwa, the magnitude of the threat by those enemies that seemed eliminated becomes increasingly clear. The technologies available to the Paratwa seem so superior that they leave no hope.

Gillian continues to be upset by his inner conflict and arrives on Earth hoping to find some answers after receiving a message that only he can understand. When he meets Susan, he recognizes her because her disappearance is a high-profile case, but who is the mysterious man with her?

The Silent Stars Go By by Dan Abnett

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The novel “The Silent Stars Go By” by Dan Abnett was published for the first time in 2011.

The Eleventh Doctor promised Amy, and Rory to take them home for Christmas but mistakenly takes the Tardis to another planet, where the travelers find a great cold and a lot of snow. The Doctor and Amy venture into the area while Rory returns to the Tardis to get a heavier coat to wear.

The Doctor and Amy come across some inhabitants of the planet, who welcome them with puzzlement. The Doctor tries to use his psychic paper, but when it’s read even by an illiterate inhabitant, the others think that it’s some kind of conjure. Once out of the Tardis, Rory searches for his travel companions, but spots menacing creatures and flees. He runs into human natives in search of a missing local woman, but before he can try to explain that he doesn’t know anything, the group is attacked by the creatures.