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> Genre: Science Fiction

quiet duty, questionable faith, and children taking on the burdens of their parents

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

April 15, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

I’d remembered of course that I should be grateful as always, but hadn’t been able to keep the disappointment from my mind. Kazuo Ishiguro, the master of suffering with dignity, is back with another literary gut-punch. There is no one else who handles quietly doomed duty quite like him. Klara is alive, but not entirely. She is an AF: a robotic companion for disconnected children. She lives in a shop window where she strives to please the Manager. She hopes to bask in the nourishing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, duty, ethics of artificial life, genetic engineering, Kazuo Ishiguro, Love, near future, never let me go, remains of the day

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: artificial intelligence, duty, ethics of artificial life, genetic engineering, Kazuo Ishiguro, Love, near future, never let me go, remains of the day ·
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When the End Comes

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

Cell by Stephen King

April 15, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I recently read two books with apocalyptic overtones. Neither were great but both were eminently readable, if weird and unfocused… Cult X * Well then. It’s almost impossible for a book as popular as Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X to get anything less than a 3+ star rating on GoodReads. A book usually has enough vociferous defenders who give it gratuitous 5s to put it over the top. That this one was hovering at 2.97 when I picked it up was not a good sign for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: apocalypse, Cell, crime, cult x, cults, Fuminori Nakamura, Japan, Stephen King, zombies

Jake's CBR13 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: apocalypse, Cell, crime, cult x, cults, Fuminori Nakamura, Japan, Stephen King, zombies ·
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Symbiosis

“Mouths always open, minds never so”

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden

April 13, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

Hello, another gorgeous cover! This is the second in the Escaping Exodus series and absolutely cannot be read without reading the first. Trust me, the book is confusing enough without it! The book picks up three years later with Doka and the rest of his people having made great strides in approaching a less harmful – a less parasitical – living situation with their Zenzee. It also means that a lot of sacrifices have had to be made, including leaving a chunk of the population […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden ·
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Escaping Exodus

Whales… in… space!

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

April 12, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

First, this cover is gorgeous. Second, this book was recommended to me as basically a lesbian environmentalist story set on a space octopus, which, I mean, who can resist checking something like that out? And I would agree, it’s a sort of environmental manifesto, along with a complicated f/f relationship and lots of alien ship body fluids. Seske is the epitome of the spoiled princess, heir to the Matris, ruler of the people on this particular beast. She can’t even comprehend how good she has […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden ·
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Super cool, innovative setting with so-so plot

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden

April 10, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

One thing is for certain–I can’t be faulted for consistency. I had thoughts on this novel, and went to go and see what I thought of the prior novel. Voila, they are almost identical: I think this was four stars for the world building and generalized atmosphere, and knocked down one star for the combination of Very Unsubtle Gender Commentary and lots of screaming/lashing out. In this second installment (concluding installment?), the world continues to be fascinating and novel. The atmosphere continues to be creepy […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: afrofuturism, Nicky Drayden

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:62 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: afrofuturism, Nicky Drayden ·
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