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Rage Against the Machine

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

May 23, 2024 by Debcapsfan Leave a Comment

This review contains some mild spoilers which I think are given away in the book jacket. Iron Widow is a YA story set in a future city of Chinese inspired Huaxia where men and women pilot mecha type suits to protect the population from aliens around the Great Wall. The suits are called Chrysalises, and the pilot, a man, teams up with a woman in the back in a merging of energy and minds that usually result in the woman’s death. This is how the […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Military scifi, revenge, Xiran Jay Zhao, YA

Debcapsfan's CBR16 Review No:4 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Military scifi, revenge, Xiran Jay Zhao, YA ·
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Outer. Space!

Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

August 8, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR11bingo: Not in my wheelhouse. If you’re curious about the title, google “Adam Driver Llewyn Davis.” If nothing else, you’ll randomly see Kylo Ren going against Poe Dameron. Science fiction is not my thing but whenever I’m in a Star Wars mood, I crave scifi books. Fortune’s Pawn wound up on one recommended list or another. I always start a book like that and then wonder why I bother. This one was no different. But I gritted through and this is fine, entertaining military […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr11bingo, Fortune's Pawn, Military scifi, Rachel Bach

Jake's CBR11 Review No:75 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr11bingo, Fortune's Pawn, Military scifi, Rachel Bach ·
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