“How the hell did this book win a Hugo award?” asks Luke, then has a rant about Robert J Sawyer’s Hominids. Multiple rants, in fact.

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A spaceship the size of Jupiter traveling at half the speed of light battles with a nebula… Luke reviews The Well of Stars by Robert Reed.

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Luke reads Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, a story about a dirty, bedraggled, begrimed, black, contaminated, cruddy, crummy, defiled, disarrayed, dishabille, disheveled, dreggy, dungy, dusty, filthy, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, icky, lousy, messy, mucky, muddy, mung, murky, nasty, pigpen, polluted, raunchy, scummy, scuzzy, slatternly, slimy, sloppy, slovenly, smudged, smutty, sooty, spattered, spotted, squalid, stained, straggly, sullied, undusted, unhygienic, unkempt, unlaundered, unsanitary, unsightly, unswept, untidy, unwashed, yucky city called New Crobuzon.

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Luke enjoys getting interesting feedback far more than he enjoys reading non-canon Dune books such as Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

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Luke reviews a childhood favorite, the John Wyndham classic post-apocalyptic tale: The Day of the Triffids.

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In a continuing exploration into early cyberpunk, Luke reads and reviews the book that started it all, William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

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Luke reviews the The Dreaming Void, avoiding as much of the story as possible so not to spoil the events in the previous Commonwealth Books by Peter F. Hamilton.

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Luke went long replying to some listener feedback so decided to post it as a separate show. And when he reads some feedback at the end, he says “… rant incentive…” instead of “… rant invective…” with the sole reason being his very bad reading aloud skills. Ironically, he goes on to talk about how he doesn’t edit the show. Meanwhile, typing in the third person is weird.

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Luke really lets loose during his review of this classic cyberpunk effort by Neal Stephenson, Snore Crash. Er… Snow Crash.

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Luke re-visits Robert Reed’s back catalog to find yet more long lived humans and yet more inexplicable technology… but this time it all makes sense! Thumbs up for Down the Bright Way.

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