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lanceschaubert 's review for:
Derelict
by L.J. Cohen
The simple thing is this: read the book. I love this book. I really love this book as a first book (if that’s really the case, I think it is?)
I’m happy to say Derelict by LJ Cohen is the best science fiction novel I’ve read in years.
That’s partly because I’ve steered away from science fiction from too many disappointments, partly because I’ve read a decent number of bad ones, but I doubled checked my Goodreads: the last great “science fiction year” I had was 2019 — Old Man’s War + Canticle for Leibowitz. That was a great year.
I’ve since read the garbage entitled Stranger in a Strange Land. So yes, I’ve read “classics” since 2019 that were garbage and also other voices that I refused to post on Goodreads.
LJ Cohen’s Derelict surprised me. And look, I know I published her story in Of Gods and Globes I, but that doesn’t mean I have to like everything she every wrote. No writer in that series swings for the fences every time, not even Juliet. However, LJ’s story in the OGAG series makes me cry every time I read it, so maybe check it out?
So yes, I mean it — this novel surprised me. I know her work made shortlists for other things, but I want to highlight some really interesting things she’s doing:
https://lanceschaubert.org/2023/03/21/lj-cohen-derelict/
I’m happy to say Derelict by LJ Cohen is the best science fiction novel I’ve read in years.
That’s partly because I’ve steered away from science fiction from too many disappointments, partly because I’ve read a decent number of bad ones, but I doubled checked my Goodreads: the last great “science fiction year” I had was 2019 — Old Man’s War + Canticle for Leibowitz. That was a great year.
I’ve since read the garbage entitled Stranger in a Strange Land. So yes, I’ve read “classics” since 2019 that were garbage and also other voices that I refused to post on Goodreads.
LJ Cohen’s Derelict surprised me. And look, I know I published her story in Of Gods and Globes I, but that doesn’t mean I have to like everything she every wrote. No writer in that series swings for the fences every time, not even Juliet. However, LJ’s story in the OGAG series makes me cry every time I read it, so maybe check it out?
So yes, I mean it — this novel surprised me. I know her work made shortlists for other things, but I want to highlight some really interesting things she’s doing:
https://lanceschaubert.org/2023/03/21/lj-cohen-derelict/