https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/sci-fi/Recent content in Sci-Fi on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/eon-the-way-%231/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/eon-the-way-%231/While the prose is not spectacular, the ideas are. While many people seem to be annoyed by the overly visual and geometric descriptions, I found themhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/pretender-foreigner-%238/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/pretender-foreigner-%238/Re-org-er Want to see how al-Sharaa drove to Damascus in victory, or how Satya Nadella reclaimed a stalled culture transformation? Skip the nonfictionhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/destroyer-foreigner-%237/Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/destroyer-foreigner-%237/Layover-er Destroyer is almost all plot, if logistics count as plot. Here they do. The novel reads like deployment orders disguised as fictionhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/explorer-foreigner-%236/Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/explorer-foreigner-%236/Diplomancer Explorer feels like a season finale: five books of setup suddenly widen into nested multilateral diplomacy, delivering the reward of a newhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-rising-thunder-honor-harrington-%2313/Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-rising-thunder-honor-harrington-%2313/Exposition Ascendant With a lower overall rating than previous and subsequent entries, Rising Thunder seemed like a throwaway installment. It isn’t. Byhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/flag-in-exile-honor-harrington-%235/Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/flag-in-exile-honor-harrington-%235/Deus Ex Honor I understand the now Honor Harrington books run on a clear formula: Honor does the right thing, ruffles lesser egos, then redeems herself inhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/dogs-of-war-dogs-of-war-%231/Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/dogs-of-war-dogs-of-war-%231/What it Takes to be a Good Dog Dogs of War grabs you with action, then pulls off sharp pivots into a more contemplative legal and politicalhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/akira-vol.-2/Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/akira-vol.-2/Blockbuster of the 80’s Reading volumes 2 through 5 of Akira found a new sensation: the pace is dictated not by the density of ideas, but by how fast youhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/akira-vol.-1/Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/akira-vol.-1/Not Enough for One Sitting Certainly a page turner. With sparse text and dynamic artwork, each page flies by. It’s not that the story is light, it’s justhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/daring-to-be-different/Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/daring-to-be-different/Daring to be Different Completed: March 19, 2025 Last edited time: February 9, 2026 1:39 PM Status: OBE Type: Bookhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/This is not a book, it is a screen saver. Sure, manipulating causality could be clever, but in the end every world visited is intentionally left so vaguehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/roadside-picnic/Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/roadside-picnic/Aliens don't care The Zone is neither good nor evil, it just is. Roadside Picnic, like much of the Russian scifi I've read recently, is a refreshinghttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/solaris/Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/solaris/Postmodern Xenofiction A book inspired a movie. The movie inspired remakes. One remake inspired a notable soundtrack. The soundtrack I've listened tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-player-of-games-culture-%232/Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-player-of-games-culture-%232/Regrets of a Reader of Pages The premise of Player of Games reminded me of a Dune board game tournament—strategic, layered, and plenty of intrigue. (As anhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-sunlit-man/Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-sunlit-man/1st Book of 2025: Entirely Forgettable. Read through this in one sleepless post-surgery night, and it just felt like a draft of a side-plot from ahttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/heavenly-tyrant-iron-widow-%232/Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/heavenly-tyrant-iron-widow-%232/Private Property is my Safe Word I have a rule in Sci-fi: If main characters engage in taboo sex while discussing esoteric politics, I'm out. Based on thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/elder-race/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/elder-race/ChatGPT, write a novella with sad narrator, based on this prompt: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/inheritor/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/inheritor/<b> Tea Drinker </b> Reading Inheritor three years after the first two books, I had to reassemble Cherry’s political map from fragments. Like Bren, Ihttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/excession-culture-%235/Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/excession-culture-%235/Multiple POVs in quick succession dealing with unknown unknowns, not a good book to fall asleep to as I keep getting lost. Someday...https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-city-the-city/Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-city-the-city/Exactly what I want out of fiction. A well paced plot, a few characters to root for, and surprises that keep the story ahead of, or at least more complexhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/consider-phlebas-culture-%231/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/consider-phlebas-culture-%231/Typical Action Movie Book Picking up a popular scifi book is a roll of the dice. Sometimes, through pure luck you find exceptional ideas or a rivetinghttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/dawn-xenogenesis-%231/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/dawn-xenogenesis-%231/Aliens should be weird. Interesting concepts of how a superior biotech race could manipulate and control humans, even while trying to maintain ahttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/heavens-river-bobiverse-%234/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/heavens-river-bobiverse-%234/2.5 stars. Similar but not nearly as good as a fire upon the deep. The entire star fleet plot seemed useless. Still worked as a distraction for a fewhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-wayfarers-%231/Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-wayfarers-%231/Snackable ‘misfits in space’ book with a more modern take on gender and sex but the rest of sci-fi tropes intact. I’ve just read this story one too manyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/starship-troopers/Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/starship-troopers/This is your dads sci-fi. Best read paired with forever war, links to enders game are clear. An only slightly post-fascist fascist work. Not painful likehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-calculating-stars-lady-astronaut-universe-%231/Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-calculating-stars-lady-astronaut-universe-%231/Mathletes v. Machos I used to be good at math. Not 'A student' good, I mean win the competitions, calculate faster than friends with a calculator good. Ashttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-year-of-the-flood-maddaddam-%232/Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-year-of-the-flood-maddaddam-%232/End of the World was Boring The fall of man was multidimensional. Ancestral primates fell out of the trees, then they fell from plant eating to meathttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/project-hail-mary/Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/project-hail-mary/Space Sucks, Science is Fun Every science nerd dreams that someday their years of learning esoteric knowledge will pay off. So for many, the real worldhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/foreigner-foreigner-%231/Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/foreigner-foreigner-%231/Wonder in Incomprehension There was nothing in the laws of the universe that said Atevi had to have human attributes, or respond when humans tried tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/on-basilisk-station-honor-harrington-%231/Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/on-basilisk-station-honor-harrington-%231/46th book of 2021: On Wish-Fulfillment Station On Basilisk Station promises to take an exceedingly competent protagonist through harrowing circumstanceshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/fugitive-telemetry-the-murderbot-diaries-%236/Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/fugitive-telemetry-the-murderbot-diaries-%236/43rd book of 2021: Fugitive Telemetry takes place in-universe between Exit Strategy and Network Effect (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3274092254)https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-desolation-called-peace-teixcalaan-%232/Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-desolation-called-peace-teixcalaan-%232/36th book of 2021: Body Politic Everybody had politics, even if only some people had sex. Narratives of collective action and dissonance are so oftenhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/exhalation/Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/exhalation/12th book of 2021: Sci-Factoids To be a nerdy American millennial is to have unprecedented privilege in asking 'what if?' Not only do we benefit fromhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/rendezvous-with-rama-rama-%231/Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/rendezvous-with-rama-rama-%231/72nd book of 2020 - Nice Escape. It’s November 3rd, as the American republic follows perilously close to last days of the Roman republic: a contestedhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/network-effect-the-murderbot-diaries-%235/Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/network-effect-the-murderbot-diaries-%235/27th book of 2020. You would think that the narrative of a grumpy antisocial robot who just wants to get back to watching TV serials would get boringhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/thunderhead-arc-of-a-scythe-%232/Sun, 03 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/thunderhead-arc-of-a-scythe-%232/68th book of 2019 When I'm bored and on a plane, sometimes I write book reviews (i.e. right now). Other times I watch marvel movies. This book fitshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/scythe-arc-of-a-scythe-%231/Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/scythe-arc-of-a-scythe-%231/67th book of 2019. Scythe -- an interesting, somewhat meditative YA scifi novel on death. The premise was fun, and I appreciate how the author went tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/dark-age-red-rising-saga-%235/Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/dark-age-red-rising-saga-%235/55th Book of 2019 "There's never a right call, just people who make hard ones." At this point in the series, our heroes are no longer heroic, nor do theyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/doomsday-book-oxford-time-travel-%231/Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/doomsday-book-oxford-time-travel-%231/The premise was great, and the focus on everyday Medieval life was fascinating, but I disliked every single character from the future timeline (i.e. justhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-martian-chronicles/Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-martian-chronicles/45th book of 2019 Came into this book with a strong recommendation from a friend thinking that I would get a novel similar to Foundation or Childhood'shttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/childhoods-end/Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/childhoods-end/45th book of 2019. A unique take on first contact, perhaps the perfect antidote to (三体) the three body problem. In the hundreds of sci-fi books I've readhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/children-of-time-children-of-time-%231/Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/children-of-time-children-of-time-%231/This was a book about first contact between humans and an alien race that is actually alien, similar to 'A Mote in God's Eye' or 'A Deepness in the Sky'https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-deepness-in-the-sky-zones-of-thought-%232/Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-deepness-in-the-sky-zones-of-thought-%232/The plot is completely unrelated to its predecessor, 'A fire upon the deep'. However, the themes of the book are similar about first contact betweenhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/binti-binti-%231/Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/binti-binti-%231/The only thing that seemed unique to me in the book was the plot twist about 20% of the way through. So short that there's no harm in picking it up, buthttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-left-hand-of-darkness/Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-left-hand-of-darkness/A book more of ideas than plot, I liked the premise and enjoyed Le Guin's curious explorations of gender (akin to Ancillary Mercy) rather thanhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/tiamats-wrath-the-expanse-%238/Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/tiamats-wrath-the-expanse-%238/This book hijacked my brain, I ended up reading it through in two sessions. Tiamat's Wrath rewards you for being a fan. It brings up so much from thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-fire-upon-the-deep-zones-of-thought-%231/Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-fire-upon-the-deep-zones-of-thought-%231/Redwall mixed with Foundation. Apparently the original title for the book was 'Among the Tines' but the editor rejected it. For being a space opera, ahttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/Started out slow, but by about 3/4 of the way through I couldn’t put it down. Definitely conveys many opinions about the authors politics, but not so badhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-mote-in-gods-eye-moties-%231/Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-mote-in-gods-eye-moties-%231/Two 70’s Sci-fi writers discover a species hitherto unknown to man, a species so fascinating that they struggle immensely to describe these creatures inhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/exit-strategy-the-murderbot-diaries-%234/Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/exit-strategy-the-murderbot-diaries-%234/I, too, love murderbot!https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/artificial-condition-the-murderbot-diaries-%232/Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/artificial-condition-the-murderbot-diaries-%232/The narrator is so compelling, these books are just fun. I'm going to read every book in this series.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-stone-sky-the-broken-earth-%233/Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-stone-sky-the-broken-earth-%233/Satisfying conclusion, pulled some of the same tricks as the original on a grander scale, but ended the series on a good note. Worth reading this serieshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/all-systems-red-the-murderbot-diaries-%231/Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/all-systems-red-the-murderbot-diaries-%231/Fun. Reminded me of all you need is kill, combined with Andy Weir.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ancillary-justice-imperial-radch-%231/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ancillary-justice-imperial-radch-%231/I probably blasted through this too fast, but enjoyed it. I'll be reading the series. I appreciated the commentary on translation, the first person AIhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/too-like-the-lightning-terra-ignota-%231/Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/too-like-the-lightning-terra-ignota-%231/I didn't really enjoy this book. There's so much going on, but nothing had depth, and even the plot didn't make it far. The politics felt shallow, writtenhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/morning-star-red-rising-saga-%233/Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/morning-star-red-rising-saga-%233/I enjoyed it. Pulpy, to be sure. By this point the 30 pages of fun are familiar: action begets betrayal, begets melancholic pontification. Repeat thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-man-in-the-high-castle/Sat, 26 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-man-in-the-high-castle/2.5 stars. The Amazon series is better. I didn't like any of the characters, the mysticism seemed pointless, and didn't like pkd's style of writing. Stillhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/golden-son-red-rising-saga-%232/Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/golden-son-red-rising-saga-%232/The first half starts off well. Golden Son has a tactical writing style averaging one betrayal per chapter, which is impressive for a 51 chapter book. Buthttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ancillary-mercy-imperial-radch-%233/Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ancillary-mercy-imperial-radch-%233/Tactics weren't convincing, politics weren't convincing. but I was already sucked into the universe. I felt like an AI given a command to finish out thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ancillary-sword-imperial-radch-%232/Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ancillary-sword-imperial-radch-%232/Meh. Pride and prejudice and programs and politics. Should be my thing, but not really my thing.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/red-rising-red-rising-saga-%231/Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/red-rising-red-rising-saga-%231/I was tempted by a tagline calling this book a combination of Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones. This book is not like Game of Thrones, andhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/lost-stars-star-wars/Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/lost-stars-star-wars/Did you ever wonder, after seeing the episode 7 trailer, how a star destroyer could crash into a planet without disintegrating mid flight? Turns out thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-martian/Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-martian/As good as everyone says it is. Don't let the weird looking cover put you off. Go read it now. If you don't believe me, go watch the trailer for thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/freedom-daemon-%232/Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/freedom-daemon-%232/Meh. The commentary on the state of capitalism was much better captured in Capital in the 21st Century, and there were very few ideas not alreadyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/seveneves/Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/seveneves/Book 1: 'Gravity' with the ISS and an astroid. 4 Stars. Book 2: BSG in LEO. 2 stars. Book 3: Red vs. Blue, Earth Gulch Chronicles. 2 stars. My advice? Puthttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/old-mans-war-old-mans-war-%231/Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/old-mans-war-old-mans-war-%231/Competent, but not nearly as interesting as [b:All You Need Is Kill|6255949|All You Need Is Kill|Hiroshihttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-earth-the-long-earth-%231/Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-earth-the-long-earth-%231/this book = his dark materials + origin of the species + the sum of all fears. although it is less enjoyable than any of those books. I'm not sure why thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/wool-omnibus-silo-%231/Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/wool-omnibus-silo-%231/Wow. Some great twists, an appealing narrative structure, and a realistic antagonist. Great scifi.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ready-player-one-ready-player-one-%231/Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/ready-player-one-ready-player-one-%231/The robotic obsession with references to 80's pop culture was tiresome, and the world itself seemed devoid of forward looking creativity. I didn't findhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/anathem/Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/anathem/The ideas were great, and the pseudophilosophy was fun. Actually I found myself bored in the action sequences that seemed to jar with the morehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/cloud-atlas/Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/cloud-atlas/I felt cheated, every time I started to enjoy a story, it would stop and I would be forced to read something else, by the time I got to cavendish parthttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/%E4%B8%89%E4%BD%93-%E4%B8%89%E4%BD%93-%231/Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/%E4%B8%89%E4%BD%93-%E4%B8%89%E4%BD%93-%231/This book seemed to be some combination of a 余华 novel about the cultural revolution, a fictionalized version of a Brian Greene book, and a Stephensonhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/i-am-number-four-lorien-legacies-%231/Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/i-am-number-four-lorien-legacies-%231/Yes I read this book - don't judge me. OK judge me. I read it 6 months ago and I'm really having a hard time remembering anything interesting orhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/neuromancer-sprawl-%231/Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/neuromancer-sprawl-%231/Throughout Neuromancer, I found it difficult not to be reminded of Snow Crash. It is clear that Neuromancer influenced Snow Crash- and I together theyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-host-the-host-%231/Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-host-the-host-%231/I couldn't help be reminded of the Animorphs series that I read in elementary school. Too many aspects were the same, if only expanded to fill the 600https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-andromeda-strain-andromeda-%231/Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-andromeda-strain-andromeda-%231/This week, my wife tested positive for COVID. We don't know where she got it, may as well have been outer space. I watched our internal quarantine