At points this felt a bit like a murderbot homage (or at least a sly reference).
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computer scientist, mathematician, photographer, human. Debian Developer, Notmuch Maintainer, scuba diver
Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.
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David Bremner started reading The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there …
David Bremner commented on Translation State by Ann Leckie
David Bremner finished reading Translation State by Ann Leckie
David Bremner started reading Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
David Bremner finished reading The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
Overall I found it decent, but it was a bit of a slog. I think most of the character + world building could have been done with less words. I listened to it on audiobook, which usually makes long books somewhat easier to (passively?) take.
David Bremner wants to read Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Based on a review by wandering.shop/@Pheebsdw
David Bremner wants to read The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to parallel Earths. There's just one …
David Bremner wants to read The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
David Bremner started reading The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty …
David Bremner reviewed Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Good, but not that kind of Space Opera
4 stars
Fans of Alastair Reynolds, beware, this is not your stuff. Fans of Douglas Adams, you will probably like this, if you can admit that on some level, Valente is the better writer. Or perhaps it just seems so to me because the satire is more on point for current events.
The overall arc of the story is not too surprising, but there are many extremely quotable quips. Valente seems to have a gift for humorous (pop or otherwise) culture references.
Not to talk down the book, which has no pretensions of being more than what it is, but I look forward to reading Valente putting that raw wordpower to something a little more ambitious.
David Bremner finished reading Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the …
David Bremner started reading Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Starting my first @Catvalente@wandering.shop book, wish me luck!