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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Severance by Ling Ma

May 9, 2019 by scootsa1000 4 Comments

This was an interesting story that I appreciated far more than I enjoyed. Candace Chen is a 20-something in middle-management at a Manhattan publishing company, in the specialty Bible division. She is good at her job, but she doesn’t really like much about it. It’s a job, it pays the bills. But she has no passion for it. But Candace, like many of her generation, doesn’t really know what it is that she actually does have passion for. She used to like photography, and had […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, dystopia, Ling Ma, randall flagg, Scootsa1000, Severance, zombies

scootsa1000's CBR11 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr11, dystopia, Ling Ma, randall flagg, Scootsa1000, Severance, zombies ·
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The End is Nigh… But So Is My Quarterly Deadline

Severance by Ling Ma

April 19, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

I thought I had already reviewed this guy but apparently not. Unfortunately it’s been a bit since I read it so this review may not be as specific as I would normally like. Oh well, I liked it and good books stick with you pretty well, so this should still be pretty good. How long do you think it would take for the average person to notice Armageddon had come? For Candace, way longer than most folks would like to think. Candace is a millennial […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: distopian future, Fiction, Ling Ma, Severance

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: distopian future, Fiction, Ling Ma, Severance ·
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