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“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 Nation states no longer exist and have been replaced by microdemocracies which can be as small as a few city blocks. The corporate Heritage party has held […]

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

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, I really enjoyed several of these short stories.  “Johnny Mnemonic” is the only one that […]

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7/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

A love letter to video games

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline was a more recent CBR9 book exchange gift. The backlash for the book was pretty intense, but with the recent film adaptation, I was curious to read it for myself. Thus, I was glad my Mocha Girls Read book club picked it for our white male author theme. I ended up finishing it over 4th of July and surprisingly enjoyed the pop culture filled story. The story follows Wade on an epic quest to essentially save the internet from a fascist capitalist demise. A genius programmer, Halliday created The Oasis, a virtual world so amazing […]

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12/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

Continuing on past the end of the world, after the end of the world

Deacon - Gideon's Riders #2 by Kit Rocha

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Kit Rocha’s Beyond series deals in the lives and loves of a bisexual love army fighting back against capitalist oppressors after the fall of our current civilization. The Gideon’s Riders series is a successor series to the Beyond Series. They are fun, quick reads and they are reliable (Which is actually really important in romance readership.) I enjoyed the Beyond books, so I started in on Gideon’s. This is the second book about Gideon’s Riders, a fighting force of people who have committed to give their lives in service of the head of their religion. Which is already off putting […]

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1/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Cat

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

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Fuzzy Nation, by John Scalzi, is a remake of an earlier sci-fi novel by H. Beam Piper. It tells the story of Jack Holloway, a surveyor on the planet Zara XXIII, owned by Zaracorp. He is your classic case of a guy falling upwards. He worked as an attorney and got himself fired by punching a client. He got himself a large settlement from the company that wanted him to get the case to a mistrial. He is smart, but he clearly knows it. He’s also arrogant, and is always acting in his best interest. At the start of the novel, he […]

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1/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Friendship is magic

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan

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Setting up a mystery is easy, you just present an amount of threads, leaving it to the reader to guess the pattern before, in the end, all the threads are woven neatly together. But this weaving is, of course, the hard part, because the reader has followed all the threads with you and guessed at so many more patterns than the actual book can hold. Mr. penumbra’s 24 hour bookstore was a book with plenty of interesting threads; an old bookstore, mysterious google-stuff, new tech, old stories, mysterious cults, and immortality. Yet the threads were too thin and in the […]

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10/15/2017 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

It’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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  I enjoy post apocalypse fiction. There is something about the society and all its excesses breaking down and mankind being stripped to its bare essentials that appeals to me as a literary trope. The means in which the world ends is simply a MacGuffin, the device that propels the story forward and tells us what happens to mankind when it has to focus solely on survival. The Passage is similar in that regard, though the concept of a viral vampire apocalypse is intriguing. In the end it’s the story of what mankind is when boiled down to its essence. […]

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9/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

“I’m just like my country. I’m young and scrappy and hungry.”

Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

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HALF CANNONBALL!!   I don’t usually finish a book and then immediately pick up the sequel. Now usually that’s because I don’t yet own the sequel but also I tend to want a change of pace genre-wise. But in the case of The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, I had to know what happened next. Fortunately, I had the first two books in the series already on my kindle (and I’m currently kicking myself for not picking up the third when I had the chance). The Tearling series is a fast paced, genre bending work of fiction that […]

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7/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |


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