Red rising

The first thing you should know about me is I am my father’s son. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. I did not cry. Not when the Society televised the arrest. Not when the Golds tried him. Not when the Grays hanged him. Mother hit me for that. My brother Kieran was supposed to be the stoic one. He was the elder, I the younger. I was supposed to cry. Instead, Kieran bawled like a girl when Little Eo tucked a haemanthus into Father’s left workboot and ran back to her own father’s side. My sister Leanna murmured a lament beside me. I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes.

On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Author- Pierce Brown
Publisher- New York: Ballantine Books 2014.

annotations- the debut novel from Pierce Brown that started the red rising trilogy, winner of Goodreads Choice Awards: 2014, a fast-paced, thrilling, journey into an expansive dystopian Sci-Fi fantasy world that flows from earths moon to the far edge of the solar system. our story follows Darrow after the execution of his wife throws himself into a revolutionary cell which aims to infiltrate the ruling Gold a genetically enhanced bloodthirsty
warrior class that rules over the solar system with an Iron fist.

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2001 a space odyssey

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. In this barren and desiccated land, only the small or the swift or the fierce could flourish, or even hope to survive.

author- Arther c Clark
publisher- New York: New American Library c1968

annotations-  from the award-winning author of childhoods end and Rendezvous with Rama comes the inspiration for one of the 20th centuries most groundbreaking film, 2001: a space odyssey. the story starts with a discovery on the moon that humanity has been dreading and hoping for since it first looked into the night sky. the possibility that we may not be alone in the universe sparks a manned mission into the outer reaches of the solar system, but in the deep reaches of space, with a crew of two and an AI named HAL disaster is brewing. a thought-provoking read, descriptively written, with a strong plot and                                                                   great world-building. a true classic.
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Stranger in a strange land

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Author- Robert A. Heinlein
publisher- New York: Putnam 1961

From the multi Hugo award-winning author of the moon is a hard mistress and puppetmaster comes the story of the first human citizen of Mars. his odyssey of travelling back to earth and navigating everything that entails. from accidental fortune, becoming the head of a new religion, to a carnival magician we follow Valentine Michael Smith as he sets out on a one-man odyssey across America becoming a one-man microscope for western civilisation and the uncomfortableness of having to account for that system to an outsider.

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