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A mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old days, …
Very much in the same vein as the first one, but it doesn't quite have the same punch now that the setting has already been introduced and explored
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
I didn't know what to expect from a novella about a convent of space nuns wandering the vacuum inside a gigantic sea slug, and that's what I got
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. …
An adequate whodunit set in alternate contemporary Lisbon where a minority of people are gifted with telepathic or telekinetic powers.
There were some oddities - for example, the protagonist talks about the ambient temperature in every scene. I was expecting it to become a plot point, but apparently it's just there. The story revolves around two investigators doing their thing, but they're oddly timid - they're perfectly content with people just refusing to talk to them about the investigation, and they act like getting a warrant for some piece of evidence that all their other evidence points at is an impossible obstacle.
It was enjoyable despite these details, and I'll probably read the subsequent entries eventually.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a …
There was a plan.
She had the money, the connections, even the brains. It was become one of the only …
Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
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The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and …
Content warning big plot spoiler
Unspeakable Olli, the Pincer and the Claw
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and …
I'm kind of burning out on "with extreme prejudice"…
Ancillary Mercy is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in …
Content warning Trilogy plot discussion
I just reread this trilogy again recently, between other things.
I've seen a number of criticisms of the differences in pacing/scoping between the three novels, from people who interpreted Ancillary Justice as "Breq's epic quest to kill god" and the latter two as "Breq doodles around with local politicians and Presger Translators".
I appreciate the different framing of each novel, and particularly that events other than The Grand Struggle for Control of The Radch are given focus - for one thing, it makes room to tell other stories in the universe, like Provenance and Translation State.
But I think it also indicates that the primary storyline in Ancillary Justice wasn't Breq/Seivarden/present, it was Justice of Toren/Awn/past – instead of the Shis'urna stuff being backstory for the main events, the Breq stuff was an epilogue to the main events, and in that light, the scoping of the three books isn't so different.
A touch more original than a lot of urban supernatural, and highly appropriate for the Halloween season
Hell yeah, Ropa puts peanut butter in her oatmeal
"A woman with strange abilities travels across a bizarre war-torn land in an inventive and …
Woo, that first chapter certainly sets the tone