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Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

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Fellow Cannonballer, Teresaelectro, first brought Heroine Complex to my attention.  Then it was a featured book title for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Mysterious Galaxy.  I was about to go and to pick up May’s book order, when on a whim I called and asked if Heroine Complex was in stock.  It was and I purchased it over the phone, to bring home with the books that were waiting at the store. Due to events this year, I have found reading to be […]

Douglas Adams was brilliant and gone too soon

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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I don’t remember the first time I read, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HGttG), I suspect sometime in middle school.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read it since.  HGttG is probably responsible for much of my sense of humor.  When Adams suddenly passed away in 2001, I felt a profound sense of loss, he was brilliant, ahead of his time, and his writings (fiction and non) were so very funny.  Every so often it will pop into my head, “What would Adams think […]

If you like David Mitchell, you’ll probably like it.

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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Hello! I love David Mitchell. Sometimes I don’t understand David Mitchell. Recently I learned he’s only 52, i.e., a couple of months *younger* than me, and so much younger than he was in my head, and was all, “You bastard!” But what has any of that to do with The Bone Clocks? Why, nothing at all! The Bone Clocks is somewhat similar in structure to Cloud Atlas, though not as complicated…structurally. It’s plenty complicated. There are immortals among us! There are good immortals and bad […]

I’m a Bad Guy

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

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I have been trying to stay away from my favorite genre with books written by white dudes, but I found Empress of Forever on a list of books with a badass  heroine, and how could I pass that up? Vivian Liao is a rich and powerful business woman used to getting her own way, until she draws too much attention to herself from the Government and needs to disappear. Instead, she sets off a chain of events where she is sent through time and space […]

“Tough luck for elected officials. The beast you see got 50 eyes”

Infomocracy by Malka Older

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  This book was suggested to me because I was looking for something in the vein of William Gibson and it definitely fit the bill. Malka Older’s debut novel is a smart, fast-paced science fiction novel with tons of political intrigue and lots of action. Also there’s two more in the series that I can’t wait to get my hands on and read. The story takes place in the not to distant future. Nation states no longer exist and have been replaced by microdemocracies which […]

In a Galaxy Far Far Away

Burning Chrome by William Gibson

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William Gibson’s Burning Chrome is a collection of 12 science fiction short stories that were written in the late 70s and early 80s and have been published together.  I would almost certainly never have picked up this book on my own- it joined my book collection after being abandoned by an old roommate, who had herself picked it for a college Science Fiction Literature class (which hints at how long this book has been knocking around my apartment).  Despite this not being my usual jam, […]



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