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Will

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A numbers geek reading SFF to maintain some hope in this world.

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reviewed The House of Styx by Derek Künsken

The House of Styx (2021, Solaris) 5 stars

The first in a ground breaking new science fiction series from the best-selling author of …

Unexpected and Wonderful

5 stars

I tend not to like prequels, so even though I enjoyed Künsken's Quantum Evolution series, I put off reading this for too long. As I mentioned in a previous comment, I went into this confident that I knew the book I would be getting, but ended up being completely wrong. The book explored several concepts I wasn't expecting from this writer, most notably a gender identity story, and did it so deftly that it appeared effortless. The pacing of the book was deliberate and slow, but Künsken painted such a wonderful picture of the society and the people in it that it was nice to linger for a while. There are many pages devoted to the the physics of Venus, both in the clouds and on the surface, and I imagine that some readers may get impatient, but I found them creative and interesting. This is one of my two …

started reading The House of Styx by Derek Künsken

The House of Styx (2021, Solaris) 5 stars

The first in a ground breaking new science fiction series from the best-selling author of …

I'm a little under halfway and have encountered a couple things I wasn't expecting. First, it is radically different from its sibling series, The Quantum Evolution. Second, there is a gender identity story here and it is being told extremely well up to this point. Any time I think I understand Derek Künsken he shows me how wrong I am.

System Collapse (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom) 4 stars

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Following the events in …

I may be reaching my limit with this series

3 stars

This will probably be the unpopular minority opinion, but here goes...

This book was still enjoyable, but the first half was extremely slow. It picked up once we got into the action, but it was somewhat more subtle this time around. There is nothing wrong with the book, but it feels like Wells thinks she needs to do more to evolve this character, but doesn't really know what, so we just get tiny bits.

Starter Villain (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

Expected publication September 19, 2023

Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than …

Go into it with no expectation except fun

4 stars

Like most Scalzi books this is a great story and a lot of fun. If you want some escapism then you've come to the right place. If you're looking for something deeper, this will not be satisfying at all.