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CBR11Bingo: Award Winner (and 2 others)

Vox by Christina Dalcher

Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Narrator)

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I’ve grouped 3 reviews here — all are “in the not so distant future, the world will be even shittier than it is now” stories. John Scalzi’s The Dispatcher won an Audie for Zachary Quinto’s narration, so that’s my “Award Winner!” Square. Vox by Christina Dalcher I don’t normally read books that have a less than 3.8 rating on Goodreads. That seems to be about my threshold for enjoying something. Vox has about a 3.6, but it was highly recommended on THIS site so I gave it a shot — and I’m glad I did. I love that Cannonball Read […]

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  • Vox by Christina Dalcher
  • Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
  • The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Narrator)

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:104 |

Rich people are still the worst

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi

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CBR11 Bingo Square- Science! The Dispatcher by John Scalzi was created as an audio book narrated by Zachary Quinto, and was a free monthly download for subscribers. I’ve only read one other Scalzi (I really should fix that) but this main character, Tony Valdez, is a similar type of main character, working in a morally gray area and not feeling that bad about it. In his world, most people cannot be murdered, they wake up in their beds, naked and with the clock starting again. This opens a position that seems to be tied to the Government of the place, […]

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7/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Uh, weren’t we having a mutiny? (redux)

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

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The Collapsing Empire (4 stars) I read (and reviewed) this back in 2017, but had forgotten it when I tried reading its follow-up back at the end of last year. So, I put off reading book 2 until I could go back and re-read this. And here we are. These books take place far in humanity’s future. We’ve left earth and colonized parts of the galaxy using something called “the flow”, which is a system of highways or rivers that allow us to cross the stars in a reasonably short period of time. They’re kind of like wormholes, I guess, […]

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7/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Am I cooling on Scalzi?

The Consuming Fire: Vol. 2 of The Interdependency duology by John Scalzi

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I have long been a Scalzi fan and am always eager for his next book.  Fortunately, he is the type of author that is able to churn out books on a regular basis which has fed my appetite for some time now.  The Consuming Fire is the sequel to The Collapsing Empire (which I really enjoyed and reviewed last year!), together they are The Interdependency duology.   However, I stalled on this book.  Scalzi’s books tends to be easy reads that can be quickly ripped through, this book is no exception, but it took me several weeks to finish. With […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

It’s Worse Than That; He’s Dead, Jim.

Redshirts by John Scalzi

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 This book was the perfect little bit of escapism to get me through a long, challenging weekend recently. It’s a really funny little book that goes a lot deeper than you think it would on the surface. Andrew Dahl has been posted in the Intrepid, the flagship of the UU fleet. It seems like a real career boost and he’s looking forward to it. Until he gets to the Xenobiology lab. Why does everyone hide when the senior officers arrive? Why is it everyone is suddenly very busy when the Captain is looking for folks to accompany him? Why does the […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Who doesn’t like a sci-fi romp?

Head On by John Scalzi

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Recently on twitter, John Scalzi shared a one-star review of one of his books he found. In the review, the writer was upset that Scalzi wrote easily readable sci-fi “romps”. Like me, Scalzi had a hard time finding why writing something that could be described as a romp would be bad. Romps are usually fun, right? Anyway, all of this is to say that Scalzi’s second foray into the world he established in Lock-in is fun, slick and dare I say another romp. Head On, like the first book in this series, takes place in a world where a flu-like […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

I loved it, even with my surface knowledge of Star Trek

Redshirts by John Scalzi

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Okay, so my full knowledge of Star Trek can be summed up thusly: Picard face-palms, that one dude sits in chairs like he’s hurdling, and redshirts are cannon fodder. And honestly? That’s all I needed to know to enjoy the hell out of Redshirts. Those with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek (which I’m willing to bet is more than a few of you) will probably fall head over heels in love. The title may pretty quickly clue you in – Redshirts takes place in a world much like the Enterprise, but with the focus decidedly off the bridge. Meet the actual […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Just as good as the first, maybe better?

The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2) by John Scalzi

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I was not disappointed by this sequel. P.S. writing this on my phone. I don’t actually have much to say about the book. I enjoyed it a lot, and I was worried that I would have forgotten everything that happened in the last book, and I sort of had, but Scalzi makes it easy for you to catch up. Cardenia is still emperox, Kiva is still a profane little firecracker, Marse is traveling around giving lectures about the flow collapse, and the effing Nohamapetans are still messing everything up like the galactic class assholes they are. They are all trying […]

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