Friday, October 23, 2020

Foundation's Edge (and about the Foundation series in general)

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov was the only Foundation book I had read for the longest time. I have read it twice or thrice in fact as it can be found in my parents' bookshelf. Recently I figured I should maybe read the rest of the series.

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.