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Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.
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Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being murdered, …
Translation State (2023, Orbit)
Whatever it's about, I'm there for a new Ann Leckie novel
The Kingdom of Gods is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the …
I'm a bit slow on the uptake, so it wasn't until book three that I figured out that these books are really about love and its power to create and destroy.
The Kingdom of Gods is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the third book of her Inheritance …
I <3 murderbot.
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …
Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response …
Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and …
From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the …
A Christmas present from my family.
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin …
I read this quickly while somewhat sleep deprived, so I don't have as coherent an impression as I might have hoped.
Like the previous "Witness for the Dead" this is essentially a noir detective novel with fantasy elements. The characters are engaging, although the villains turn out not to have much redeeming qualities.
It's hard not to see the Goblin / Elf dynamic as some kind of comment on race and racism, although it wasn't really clear to me if the book was commenting on contemporary society or just reflecting it.
The book relies on the reader having some recall of the previous two, but especially Witness for the Dead. The reader needs the previous book not only for background on the world, but also on the relationships.
Like in Witness for the Dead, the use of an imagined dialect of English is crucial to both the atmosphere and the …
I read this quickly while somewhat sleep deprived, so I don't have as coherent an impression as I might have hoped.
Like the previous "Witness for the Dead" this is essentially a noir detective novel with fantasy elements. The characters are engaging, although the villains turn out not to have much redeeming qualities.
It's hard not to see the Goblin / Elf dynamic as some kind of comment on race and racism, although it wasn't really clear to me if the book was commenting on contemporary society or just reflecting it.
The book relies on the reader having some recall of the previous two, but especially Witness for the Dead. The reader needs the previous book not only for background on the world, but also on the relationships.
Like in Witness for the Dead, the use of an imagined dialect of English is crucial to both the atmosphere and the characterizations. Speakers (or students) of French or German will recognize the notion of formal and informal pronouns and their collision with plural. Other words seem to be borrowed from older variations of English, helping to paint the picture of a kind of steampunk early-modern world.
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel …
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
yay, a sequel!
The Kingdom of Gods is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the third book of her Inheritance …
The Kingdom of Gods is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the …
As if I was going to leave this trilogy 2/3 read.
