Be the Sea

I touched the ocean only once. In 2014, flying back home from England for the first time, I stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to attend the wedding of two Canadian teachers who had been colleagues in England. The timing was perfect, and it also allowed me to visit an old friend who lived there. The t......more

Be the Sea is a near-future solarpunk science fiction/magical realism book that is definitely worth taking your time for. The gentle atmosphere ebbs and flows like the ocean, introducing new characters on your path, most of whom I found very loveable. The story is told in three acts: first you sail a......more

I didn’t really know what I getting into when I started this long ocean journey. I’m not a big reader of spec fic and wasn’t familiar with solarpunk, but something about the description of the characters drew me in. I did put it down a few times and read other things in between, but I kept coming ba......more

2.5 rounded up because mostly I am just really not the audience for this book. The publisher's description of this as a slow-paced, free-flowing long story told in the tradition of fanfiction certainly holds true, for both the good and bad aspects of that. It really feels like two books - one, a sli......more

Imagine being a scifi book with an autistic nonbinary protagonist talking about PET recycling and I all of people still find you boring......more