“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will have to deal with them, too. Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three per cent of the energy surface—only three per cent—to tip the entire structure over into our self-sustaining system.” - The Hermetic Library Blog
“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will […]
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Robert A Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein’s Hugo-winning novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is politically-oriented “hard” sf from the 1960s. Even if we are still fifty years short of the date of the story, being […]
Unconquerable Sun - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Unconquerable Sun [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Kate Elliott, book 1 of The Sun Chronicles Promotional copy glosses the far-future adventure Unconquerable Sun as “a genderspun Alexander the Great,” and the protagonist Sun Shān is indeed a young woman set up to lead the interstellar Republic of […]
“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan.” - The Hermetic Library Blog
“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan.” Frank Herbert, Dune [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “Weren’t librarians meant to care about educating kids? So what if that education was about dark magic?” Supergod “Good grief, Sal thought. This is awful. They […]
Rogue Star - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Rogue Star [Amazon, Local Library] by Andy Hoare. (n.b. This is included in Rogue Trader: The Omnibus [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library] This novel is a miscellaneous entry into the Warhammer 40,000 literature, focused on a Rogue Trader dynasty in decline. They’re sort of authorized smugglers chartered to extend the economic reach of the […]
Priests of Mars - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Priests of Mars [Amazon, Local Library] by Graham McNeill, part of the Forges of Mars series, also in a collected edition Forges of Mars [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]. I’ve previously read a couple of Arkham Horror novels by game-developer-cum-novelist Graham McNeill, and I wasn’t profoundly impressed by them. But I’m […]
John Griogair Bell
