Mike Bloy rated Carpe jugulum: 5 stars
Carpe jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum (Latin for "seize the throat", cf. Carpe diem) is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty-third …
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Heavy focus on speculative fiction.
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Mike Bloy rated Raising Steam: 3 stars
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster …
Mike Bloy rated Feet of Clay: 5 stars
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the nineteenth book in the Discworld series, published …
Mike Bloy rated Going Postal: 4 stars
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into …
Mike Bloy rated Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2): 5 stars
Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) by Terry Pratchett
Making Money is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series, first published in the …
Mike Bloy rated Unseen academicals: 4 stars
Unseen academicals by Terry Pratchett
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so …
Mike Bloy rated Project Hail Mary: 4 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
Mike Bloy rated All Things Bright and Beautiful: 4 stars
Mike Bloy rated Fugitive Telemetry: 4 stars
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
Mike Bloy rated All Creatures Great and Small: 4 stars
Mike Bloy rated Barrayar (Vorkosigan): 5 stars
Mike Bloy rated Network Effect: 5 stars
Network Effect by Martha Wells
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and …
Mike Bloy rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 5 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Mike Bloy rated To Be Taught, If Fortunate: 4 stars
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as …