Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“Luck—that was what a man needed to thrive in this universe.  It changed the scale.  A star couldn’t have good luck—a planet couldn’t.  That took something alive and conscious, something like a man.” While exploring the galactic core, the Enterprise finds a lost Federation shuttle with a crazy person inside.  He seems to be a major plot point, but we will soon forget about him completely.  The Enterprise is then steered by an unknown force to a Dyson sphere and taken inside it.  There are […]

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Mieville Gets Weird(er) – On God-Squids and Paranoia

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Kraken is the first China Mieville book I’ve read aside from his celebrated Bas-Lag books: Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council. And while no one would ever doubt the fecundity of his imagination, his plotting has always left a bit to be desired. My overwhelming impression after finishing Perdido Street Station, in fact, was that I would kill to be able to play a Bas-Lag MMO (well, that, and a desire to find out where Mieville buys his drugs). But of course, there’s […]

Next Time Watch Out For Space Icebergs

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A bit conflicted about this one. I pretty much knew what I was getting into with it, but a lot of people had given it glowing reviews, so maybe my expectations were a little too high this time around. And don’t get me wrong, it was a good book. Competently written. Good characters with actual brains in their heads. A pretty interesting sci-fi mystery. A romance. But something kept me back from fully immersing myself in the story. Something about it just didn’t *connect* with […]



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