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The Freeze Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
Read August 2022 Recommended for people wanting to dip their toes into Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I really, really like Watts’ writing, perhaps to an extent not represented by my reviews of individual books. On the surface, that … Continue reading
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who really like classic sci-fi ★ ★ 1/2 I abandoned this at about page 183. Why? I fully admit much of it is me, in this particular mood in my life at this … Continue reading
The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson
Read November 2020 Recommended for fans of sci fi Earth, aliens ★ ★ ★ ★ The second book in the Rosewater series, and really, you can’t read and understand this without reading the first, so I really wouldn’t … Continue reading
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Read August 2020 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “‘Of course, but do you understand what is at stake,’ he asked? She had no idea… She was, however, curious. ‘Tell me,’ she said, knowing a story lay … Continue reading
The City & The City by China Mieville
Read January 2018 Recommended for Fans of Miéville ★ ★ ★ Can a city have a personality? I think so. Certainly the feel of Los Angeles is entirely different from NYC, and different again from Chicago, right? … Continue reading
bellwether by Connie Willis
Re-Read March 2017 Recommended for fans of light romantic comedy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I owe bellwether a review. Bellwether is a book that I inevitably turn to when I want something that is light, clever, literate … Continue reading
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Read July 2016 Recommended for fans of mythology, Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ Take fairy tale mythology, the sideways structure of Native American folklore, a Wild West setting, weave it through with themes on race and gender … Continue reading
The Diamond Age, Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson.
Read March to April 2016 Recommended for hard core Stephenson fans ★ ★ Initially, I wasn’t tempted by The Diamond Age, but the subtitle drew me in. A book advising young women? Interesting. However, given a choice between this … Continue reading
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of young adult, biotech, Austria ★ ★ ★ An Adventure in Which an Aristocratic Young Man Discovers How to Pilot an All-Terrain Walker and that he is Now an Orphan, and a … Continue reading
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
Read August 2015 Recommended for agnostic fans of Lovecraftian spy thrillers ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I’m thinking 2013 was a weak year for the Locus Awards. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoyed The Apocalypse Codex, and there was … Continue reading
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