This Expanse novel takes a break from the vast space opera/alien stuff to focus on individual stories for each of the Rocinante’s crew. Amos Burton is one of my favorite Expanse characters and I liked his story the best.

Pretty much what I’ve come to expect from Scalzi: nothing earth-shattering, but light, clever, and very entertaining nevertheless. (I finished it in less than two days.) He likens the novel to a fun pop song, which is pretty accurate.

I liked this better than Black Helicopters, but I still think Agents of Dreamland is the best of the trilogy.

I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as Agents of Dreamland. Lots of interesting ideas and striking prose, but the disjointed and meandering narrative made it a slog.

Excellent Lovecraft-inspired fiction. Reads like the trippiest X-Files episode never made.

Packard has more fun toying with the CYOA format, though this isn’t as trippy as Hyperspace.

My least favorite Expanse novel to date. But even a “bad” Expanse novel is still pretty good.

Read this in under 24 hours. Hurwitz knows how to write a pageturner, but it’s 100% style over substance. I appreciated the effort to make more nuanced and thoughtful bad guys, but I would’ve liked more mindless action and less existential philosophizing re. marriage, parenting, etc.

For a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book geared towards grade schoolers, Hyperspace is pretty trippy and meta.

Loved the Cold War, 007-esque espionage angle on this one.

I was a big fan of The Martian, and this feels very much of a piece. One of those sci-fi novels that makes you feel smarter while you read it. And yes, I’ll totally watch the (inevitable) movie.

Reading this, I can’t help but hear the actors’ voices from the TV series. They really did a marvelous job capturing the spirit of this book.

I’m pretty sure this novel about the world’s greatest assassin (and lover) is supposed to be a parody of the genre, but I found it tedious and pretentious. Did not finish.

I thought this would be right up my alley, but it never clicked for me. Didn’t finish it.

A delightful novella about a priest and a robot traveling through a post-apocalyptic society.