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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Singularity by Dino Buzzati

April 14, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

This is a quirky little book, sci-fi in its way, written by the Italian author Buzzati in 1960.   The plot is an odd one, these days, but due to my background, I know where he’s coming from. Professor Ismani is summoned by the Department of Defense to accept, along with his wife Elisa, a top secret two year assignment in the Swiss Alps.  They are given no information other than it is not a military assignment, but agree to it anyway.  It is a secretive […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: artifical intelligence, Check out the cover man, dino buzzati, Meeting an old friend, Much handwaving for explanation, Old school computors, Secret missions on a tranquil Swiss Alp setting, Short and weird, Some freaky shit

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: artifical intelligence, Check out the cover man, dino buzzati, Meeting an old friend, Much handwaving for explanation, Old school computors, Secret missions on a tranquil Swiss Alp setting, Short and weird, Some freaky shit ·
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Murderbot is not OK but the reason why is [redacted]

System Collapse by Martha Wells

November 4, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR16 Bingo: Rage (The Murderbot Diaries are all the rage all over the bookish internet, in addition, there’s a lot of rage-inducing behaviour from the evil corporation in the book) Spoiler warning! This is book 7 in the series, and absolutely not the place to start reading. This book will not make as much sense if it’s your first encounter with Murderbot. You should have read at least All Systems Red, Artificial Condition and the previous novel, Network Effect to have the requisite backstory for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, artifical intelligence, CBR16, cbr16bingo, LGBTQIA, Malin, martha wells, Murderbot Diaries, rage, space opera, System Collapse

Malin's CBR16 Review No:61 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, artifical intelligence, CBR16, cbr16bingo, LGBTQIA, Malin, martha wells, Murderbot Diaries, rage, space opera, System Collapse ·
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Trapped in space with psycotic rage zombies

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

March 23, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo: An epistolary novel CBR16 Sweet Books: Binge (I have already bought the next two books in the series in paperback, so I can read all of them as soon as possible.) Official book description: Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she’d ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, artifical intelligence, Binge, CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, epistolary, horror, illuminae, Malin, mystery, Nowhere Book Bingo, the illuminae files, Young Adult, zombies

Malin's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, artifical intelligence, Binge, CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, epistolary, horror, illuminae, Malin, mystery, Nowhere Book Bingo, the illuminae files, Young Adult, zombies ·
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    on “The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.”
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