Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

De beste SF van het jaar by Terry Carr

  • Started on: 2013-10-15
  • Finished on: 2013-10-15
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

This collection from the early eighties has the work of some great writers, like Roger Zelazny, Gene Wolfe and Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s a very nice collection of short science fiction stories. I especially liked ‘Venice Drowned’ by Kim Stanley Robinson, about Venice some years in the future, now truly sunk beneath the laguna, being plundered by tourists from America and Japan. Another good one was ‘The Saturn Game’ by Poul Anderson (winner of the Hugo and Nebula for best novella), where the crew of a mission to one of Saturn’s moon plays an imaginary game to offer some relief during the journey, but in the end it gets them into trouble when they start confusing the real (dangerous) world with their game. A strong collection of very good stories. Four out of four stars.

  • Started on: 2013-10-15
  • Finished on: 2013-10-15
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

This collection from the early eighties has the work of some great writers, like Roger Zelazny, Gene Wolfe and Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s a very nice collection of short science fiction stories. I especially liked ‘Venice Drowned’ by Kim Stanley Robinson, about Venice some years in the future, now truly sunk beneath the laguna, being plundered by tourists from America and Japan. Another good one was ‘The Saturn Game’ by Poul Anderson (winner of the Hugo and Nebula for best novella), where the crew of a mission to one of Saturn’s moon plays an imaginary game to offer some relief during the journey, but in the end it gets them into trouble when they start confusing the real (dangerous) world with their game. A strong collection of very good stories. Four out of four stars.