heavyboots rated Stars and Bones: 4 stars
Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell (Continuance #1)
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a …
Reread number 3 or 4? Still a really great book!
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heavyboots rated Memory's Legion: 4 stars
Memory's Legion by James S.A. Corey
Now available in print for the first time with author's notes on each story, this short fiction addition to the …
heavyboots rated Polostan: 4 stars
Polostan by Neal Stephenson (Bomb Light, #1)
heavyboots rated Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024: 5 stars
heavyboots rated The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 8: 4 stars
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 8 by Neil Clarke
To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original …
heavyboots rated Buried Deep and Other Stories: 5 stars
Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
Thirteen short stories from Naomi Novik including:
- A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance …
heavyboots rated Village Library Demon Hunting Society: 3 stars
Village Library Demon Hunting Society by C. M. Waggoner
A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot in her little town in …
heavyboots rated Beggar's Sky: 3 stars
heavyboots rated The Library at Mount Char: 5 stars
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Carolyn's not so different from the other human beings around her. She's sure of it. She likes guacamole and cigarettes …
heavyboots rated The Dead Cat Tail Assassins: 3 stars
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark, P. Djèlí Clark
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.
Nebula …
heavyboots rated The Mercy of Gods: 4 stars
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about …
heavyboots finished reading Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock takes readers on a thrilling, chilling visit to our not-too-distant future – a …
heavyboots reviewed Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin
A genre-defining--and redefining--collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord …
An absolute ton of great stories
5 stars
So I am pretty ruthless about devouring anything cyberpunk-related and yet probably 80% or more of these stories were new to me. (And also, a lot of good ones!) Pretty highly recommended if you like cyberpunk as a genre!
Just be warned, it is loooong at about 1180 pages of stories. It took me literally all my possible reserves at the library to make it through this giant tome, lol.
heavyboots rated Thornhedge: 4 stars
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she …
heavyboots rated Mammoths at the Gate: 4 stars
Mammoths at the Gate by Nghi Vo
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to …