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WHAT THE FRANKENSTEIN (only I did not say Frankenstein) is going on?

Blackbird, Volume 1 by Sam Humphries

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My weekend started normal: a late wake up, couple loads of laundry, off to a fund raiser for Special Olympics (which I did not know about until I get a text from my sister sending me my nephews very awesome Joker inspired pumpkin) and some reading. Mostly my reading was graphic novels and each of them became an experience that is hard to put into words. I will say, they all took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. Blackbird, Volume 1 has several traditional graphic novel/comic staples. Therefore, if you are not a fan of the “comic book style” […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:425 |

For a moment she stood gaping at him, too surprised to speak.

The Invisible Man by HG Wells

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This is another of the classic HG Wells science fiction stories from the 1890s, the others being The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds. He would go onto much more different kinds of novels later. We begin in a country inn where a mysterious guest has shown up with luggage full of strange bottles and books, and the guest himself is dressed from head to foot in mysterious wrappings like a mummy. Immediately the object of curiosity, it’s brought to a head when the furniture in his room is mysteriously moving around without him being there […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:564 |

“No. There aren’t that many shows with SecUnits, and they’re either villains or the villain’s minions.”

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

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When Artificial intelligence is brought up in fiction, the focus is often on the negative aspects, milking them for dystopian drama. The worst scenario of all involves an AI rebellion, where humanity’s own creations gain awareness and decide to turn against us. You know the one – everything is fine one moment, and then suddenly, Skynet is shiv-ving you. A more unconventional direction though is having an AI killing machine gain awareness and instead of rebelling, decides it wants to be alone for a bit. You know, so it can figure itself out? And maybe watch some videos, if you […]

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10/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Magnificat – an incredible ending to this series

Magnificat by Julian May

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It has been a lot of fun re-reading all 9 books in this series but it finally comes to an end with Magnificat. Julian May truly has crafted a series that is extraordinary in scope and with characters who are vibrant. And that series does come full circle in this final installation. One of my favorite TV shows is Firefly and a quote from that show that I love is “It’s not about the destination, it is about the journey.” We have know from the first book that there was a failed metapsychic rebellion and that Marc was the primary […]

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10/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Diamond Mask – well, no one bats 1.000

Diamond Mask by Julian May

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It had to happen eventually, I did not care for this book, the first one in the series that I would describe in this manner. Why? The titular character, Dorothea MacDonald. All of the previous books, including the ones set in the Pliocene, are focused on the Remillard family. The abrupt shift to another character, and one who is not terribly sympathetic early on, is jarring. Diamond Mask is placed in danger from an early age by Hydra and Fury, and it honestly does not resonate with me at all. I had no emotional investment with the character so, while […]

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10/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Jack the Bodiless – a worthy addition to the series

Jack the Bodiless by Julian May

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This book kicks off the last part of Julian May’s Galactic Milieu series and does so with aplomb. References to Jack Remillard had been numerous in previous books but always vague. It had been stated that he was, arguably, the most powerful psychic ever born but why he did not have a body and how he died was never fully explained. The story begins with a death, that of Denis Remillard’s brother Victor, who had been the main antagonist in the earlier books. As Victor dies, he tempts or corrupts several fetuses to become evil and also helps birth the […]

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10/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

It got me another bingo at least

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

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Bingo square: Award Winner. It won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 2017 and Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. In the distant future, war is a thing of the past. A utopia, fast car transport has meant countries are no longer boundaries. You can live in Italy and work in the US and go to school in Australia. People no longer belong to nations but Hives, chosen for their best fit to personality and beliefs. Nor do nuclear families exist, instead you belong to a bash’ of your making, put together with college friends and […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

“I can’t wait to have kids.”

Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic by Nick Carr

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An Audible Original title, which are pretty hit or miss over all, but this one is both pretty good in a lot of ways, and severely limited in others. The plot here is that Wally Roux, a Black teenager from Maine, is brought down to Georgia by his white adoptive mom. He’s no longer the only Black kid in town, but now he’s living by a whole new kind of consciousness as a Black teenager in the South. Also, he has the ability to slice through the physical plane of the world into different dimensions. He uses to this to […]

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10/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:555 |


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