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Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.
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It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Available for "free" (in exchange for submitting an email address) download for the next few days from ebookclub.tor.com/
EDIT: after posting I realized it is restricted to US / Canada. Welp, I guess I might not have posted if I saw that the first time.
Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinaire--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love …
I remember enjoying this a long time ago, before the author's politics had a chance to annoy me. Picked up a $5 audiobook, going to give it another shot.
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
Content warning meta discussion of ending
This is an ambitious, genre bending book. It combines elements of magical realism with post apocalyptic science fiction. Probably the most important social contribution is implicit; it imagines a world after climate change, and makes that seem very real and very immediate. It is also full of interesting ideas about utopia and the nature of religion, and includes some thoughtful critiques of some of those ideas. For me the ending was too neat, and if I'm honest, a bit too mystical. That's a matter of taste of course, but I felt like it lost the important tension between the emotional and the intellectual that was the backbone of the rest of the book,
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
need to think a bit about a review.
The Deep is a 2019 fantasy book by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson …
"Unkindness of ghosts" was amazing.
Now I read that a failed group of Mars colonists is called the "Muskies", how can I not like this book?
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who …
This is taking me a long time. Mainly because I can't read it on my phone. I know, mock me if you must.
A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When …
Addison's writing feels like a fine mechanical watch, intricate and whirring. The main character has a somehow calm and quiet approach to being a detective, but the book still has its operatic moments, both literal (I want to see the opera about the manufactory workers), and metaphorical.
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
Content warning self harm mention
Yikes, some the early scenes about cutting are pretty intense, even knowing some of the Mayan context, and not having any particular bad history / vulnerability.
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
I meant to listen to this while traveling to Belize, but ended up not starting until returning home.
A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When …
Listening to the audiobook, I occasionally have trouble keeping up with all of the names of characters. But maybe that says more about me than about the book.
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this …
Enjoyed. Did not find the Malaysian culture specifics a barrier. Rather the opposite in fact, I think that was one of the more fun parts of the book.
Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. …
I must have enjoyed these two because I read them back to back.
Read this on a plane, enjoyed it.
From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, …
Tried to start at the end of a long day of travel, but found I was not in the mood. Too much twisty theology?