30 jul 2021

A fall of moondust by Arthur C. Clark

 In time of millionaires paying to be 3 minutes in space, I was reading a novel where millionaires payed to visit the moon and sail it in a ship...

The ship is eaten by a dust sea when an moonquake takes place, so what happens in the ship and the recovery tasks are the main subject of the book.

It's a good novel and it ends... well, it ends when the travellers are rescued.

17 jul 2021

The Wheel of time: The Dragon reborn

 Addicting, all the book with new things to know and action, I couldn't stop reading... 

Rand scapes from Moraine, Moraine, Perrin, Lan and Loial try to arrive to Tear ahead of him.

The way to Tar Valon with Nyaeve, Egwene, Eleyne and Mat, once in Tar Valon, they know the Black Ajah has attacked and fled, Mat is healed from his illness and Nyaeve, Egwene and Elayne have to investigate the Black Ajah, which leds them to... Tear, they send Mat, who finds Thom to travel with him, to give a letter to Morgase, and when he delivers the letter, he finds out someone is going to Tear to kill her three friends, so there he goes.

On the way to Tear, Perrin finds Feine(Zarina) and the three girls find some Aiel who are looking for The One Who'll arrive in the Dawn.

So... at the end all of them arrive to Tear and the climax happens, Rand finds Callandor the sword only the Dragon can touch, and one of the Forsaken is waiting for him.

I have the next book in my kindle, but I've started another book, so I won't eat all The Wheel of Time in a year... :-)

11 jul 2021

Blue Mars

 The end of the trilogy, as the previous books, science, politics and humanity.

Longevity treatments seemed to be the end of death, except by accident, but the quick decline hits the first hundred and science has to come to the rescue, will it succeed. We won't know....

In this book, Mars scientists invent a new propulsion system that allows travelling so fast that moving in the solar system becomes so quick that all the system is quickly settled, and makes the intergalaxy travels posible.

In Earth overpopulation is still a problem and they see Mars as the solution, but Mars ecosystem is weak and Mars settlers will defend their planet. Politics have to work hard to solve the different interests of both planets.

Was this book an inspiration to The Expanse? It remembers me some things in both.