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The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang

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JY Yang is a queer, non-binary, post-colonial intersectional feminist. They live in Singapore. The Descent of Monsters is the third in JY Yang’s Tensorate Series. I reviewed the first two volumes earlier this year, and the third continues the riveting and ingenious story of a world where a very privileged few hold ultimate power and wield it with disregard, if not contempt, for the rest. While the first two volumes focus on the extraordinarily talented twin children of the supreme dictator known as the Protector, this third volume is told from the point of view of a lesser tensor, Sariman, […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

Dreamy art plus a good science fiction story – not such a bad find

Orbiter by Warren Ellis

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Happy QuarterCannonball to me! I was in the library to pick up a the ten ton Oathbringer, and happened across this graphic novel I had not heard of previously. In truth, it’s Colleen Doran’s name that caught my attention first – she is very talented, able to draw and paint in many different styles, and has interesting discussions about art and artists and women in the graphic novel business on Twitter. Warren Ellis of Transmetropolitan fame is good too, though. The foreword to the novel is basically a love letter to space travel, specifically manned space travel. To a certain […]

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8/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

For all the brutal women

The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

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CBR10Bingo: Listicles When I had my embarrassing epiphany this spring that my CBR reading list and library were unacceptably skewed toward male authors, I spent a number of hours googling female authors, particularly those in genres with which I’m less familiar. One of the best sources I found was a list called “27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now”, several of which I’ve purchased already and even more that are high on my wishlist.  My most recent read from those recommendations was The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley, probably the most fitting read for me this […]

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8/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

Murderbot strikes again, is even more loveable.

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells

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Murderbot <3. I feel like just making that one word and its accompanying symbol my entire review, but that would be doing a disservice to the book and also to anyone potentially reading this review who has not yet let Murderbot into their lives. Murderbot is life. Murderbot is love. Just kidding. If Murderbot saw me talking about Murderbot like this, Murderbot would be appalled. Murderbot is all about not dealing with feelings at all costs. Which is too bad, because as a newly free individual (albeit a rogue one), dealing with feelings (including those of other people) is kind […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:87 |

A gripping time-travel slave narrative

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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Kindred was our June Cannonball Read book club selection. I decided to read both the original novel by Octavia E. Butler and graphic novel adaptation by John Jennings and Damian Duffy. Both works focus on Dana, a young writer living in 1970s northern Los Angeles (much like Butler herself). She is recently married and moving into her new home with her older white husband, Kevin. They seem quite in love and happy. Dana is unpacking some books when suddenly and inexplicably she travels through time to 1815 Maryland. This will unfortunately be one of many trips back in time where […]

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7/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

I love you, Murderbot. But I would never actually tell you that, because of the intense awkwardness that would cause you

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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4.5 stars From Goodreads: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid – a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot”. Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough […]

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7/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

Second time reading, second time not adequately expressing feelings in review.

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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I would like to lodge a protest at the start of this review against the practice of writing reviews for books that you have too much to say about. (Often too much to say leads to having nothing to say.) I had a really hard time writing a review for this excellent book the first time I read it. I did an all right job three years ago conveying some of my feelings, but mostly I have so many thoughts and feelings about this book that I literally cannot write them all or you would all be reading a small […]

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7/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

Back to the future

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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In what must be the most frightening birthday surprise ever, on Dana’s 26th birthday, as she is moving into a new house with her husband Kevin, she suddenly feels dizzy and gets transported away from her safe and familiar surroundings in 1976. She comes to in the woods by a river, where a boy is in the process of drowning. Dana reacts instinctively and wades into the water, rescuing the boy. Faced with the boy’s hysterical mother, and more terrifyingly, the boy’s angry father, who points a rifle at her, Dana is suddenly back with her husband. She might have […]

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6/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |


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