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Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay (Paperback, 2024, Orbit)
John Scalzi (duplicate): When the Moon Hits Your Eye (Tor Books)
T. Kingfisher: What Feasts at Night (Hardcover, 2024, Tor Nightfire)

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Vajra Chandrasekera: Rakesfall (Hardcover, 2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Thomas Sweterlitsch: Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Paperback, 2015, Headline)
Eve L. Ewing, Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado: The Memory Librarian (Hardcover, 2022, HarperCollins Publishers)

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reviewed Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton

Edward Ashton, Barclay Shaw: Mickey 7 (2023, Phantasia Press)

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.

Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable …

Definitely better than the movie

3.5 stars. I liked it quite well, but it's a little simplistic in some ways? At least it made a hell of a lot more sense than the movie though! (Which makes sense since I believe the director of the movie is the same guy who did Snowpiercer and just wanted to ram the message home even more in this movie than his previous one.

reviewed Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay (Paperback, 2024, Orbit)

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for …

Definitely deserves to be in the 2025 Hugo noms

Oddly, this book reminds me a lot of another nominee, The Tainted Cup. They are both about an alien biology that is a lot more fecund and transformative than ours. But while the world of The Tainted Cup is more controlled, this one is fully uncontrolled alien biology and scientists (and prisoner slaves) have been sent to unravel it while simultaneously needing to justify the political order at home somehow. It is both frustrating and frighteningly plausible given the direction politics in China have gone.

At any rate, a lot of fascinating science, plausible politics and decently well-drawn characters make for a very good read with a lot to think about afterwards. Recommended.

reviewed The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

Well done spec fic novel

I’m only knocking a star because to some degree it feels like pretty familiar ground but regardless what is here is very well written and a strong story. A woman trying to get ahead in her civil service career in the Britain ends up transferring from languages to a secret project that turns out to be being a handler for time traveler yanked from the past where he would have died on an expedition.

The relationships are great and fully realized especially and the story is pretty interesting even if it goes a little hand-wavey on the time travel and consequences bits. Would recommend.