This next series of 'books read' are all in the science fiction category. Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars was an epic sequel to the first book of his Mars Trilogy, which I read last year (I've got the third book, Blue Mars, on the dock for 2021). Robinson's Galileo's Dream mixed a fantastic biography of Galileo with a science-fiction twist in which Galileo is tasked with championing for science over religion in the far future; though it was good, Robinson doesn't mince words in his ill-treatment of religion. Larry Niven's Draco Tavern is a collection of short stories about a bar in the Siberian arctic circle that caters to alien life-forms, and it was a fantastic romp; his The World of Ptavvs, one of his earliest works, was good but nowhere near the quality of Draco Tavern. David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef was decent, but I felt the story could've been told much better (and far fewer pages); this book clocked out at around 700 pages, but most of it was rehashing the same old politics over and over (the battle scenes were pretty great, though). Taylor Anderson's Into the Storm held promise - what book that mixes dinosaurs and World War II battleships doesn't hold promise? - but I couldn't stand the writing. The cover art is great, though!
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