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My Entrypoint for Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga

The Mountains of Mourning by Vorkosigan Saga

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So a bit of re-reading was rquired here before I could write this one up. I am a huge fan of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga. Huge. And I am not the only one here. So as someone who is a big fan, I’m usually pretty eager to reccomend the series to other people. And this is where I sort of run into a problem. Because the Vorkosigan Saga sort of has the same issue as the Discworld series. This is a long running series […]

An intensely human space story

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

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[Read as an audiobook from the public library] Well, we’re straight out of Murderbot and right into some of the most serious big person pants sci-fi I’ve read since I started reading Leviathan Wakes about a hundred years ago. Bite-sized fun time space western this is not. It was some work, and it took some time, but the rewards are definitely ample. Ancillary Justice is on its face a sprawling space opera spanning a thousand years, with weird names and strange planets and ridiculously nuanced cultural […]

Officially down the rabbit hole

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

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[Read as an audiobook from the public library] I really enjoyed All Systems Red, but this is the one that hooked me. Our intrepid Murderbot has left its human team and struck out in search of answers and hopefully an of idea of what it wants to do with the rest of its existence, having been freed from its contract. It decides to travel back to the scene of a catastrophic failure, where it believes it malfunctioned and killed its clients during a mining operation. This is […]

Go for launch

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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  [Read as an audiobook from the public library] This has been on my to-read list for a while, but it’s always checked out when I’m in the mood to read it. But this time, I said to myself, “Duh, get the audiobook.” And so I did. This is such a quick, enjoyable read. The story doesn’t really break any new ground, and the plot beats are fairly predictable, but for all that it’s still fun and a well-built world that I don’t mind spending […]

How a Fantasy World can Help You Solve Your Real-World Problems

Riverland by Fran Wilde

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Riverland by Fran Wilde My rating: 5 of 5 stars Winner of the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Young Adult Fiction, “Riverland” tells the story to two sisters, Eleanor and Mike. From the very beginning it’s apparent things are not right in their family. Eleanor tells Mike stories to keep them calm and distract them from the tension between their mom and dad. We soon learn that the problem is their father, who is abusive and their mother, who enables him, and is manipulative herself. […]

This book confused my brain in ways it did not intend

Neuromancer by William Gibson

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**Expository wordiness up top. Feel free to skip to the actual book-related stuff if you like. A few things right up top: A few years ago, I flirted with playing a card game called Android: Netrunner. My partner was way more into it than I was, but occasionally I’d build a deck or two and spar with him, just to give him something to play against. I included a link to the Wikipedia article on the game there, because it’s a lot to explain if […]



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