Friday, October 23, 2020
Foundation's Edge (and about the Foundation series in general)
Friday, October 16, 2020
The Martian & Artemis
I've wanted to see Ridley Scott's film The Martian for a while but I've never spotted it on any streaming service I've had a subscription on. (Finland had the world's third most lacking Netflix selection some time ago and that probably has not improved.) Then I stumbled upon an even better thing: the Andy Weir novel the movie is based on. I also read Weir's later novel, Artemis, right after it.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Elantris
Elantris is the 6th novel Brandon Sanderson wrote and the first one he got published. Sanderson had written 16 novels in total before that in fact, or so I've learned from watching his Youtube videos. Elantris is not his best work, I have to say. Sanderson's beloved magic systems don't come into play until very late and plot twists were kind of predictable, or at least didn't evoke a similar sense of astonishment like in the Mistborn books.