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Hirvox rated Children of Time: 5 stars
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestor's …
Hirvox rated Network Effect: 5 stars
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and …
Hirvox rated The Relentless Moon: 4 stars
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (A Lady Astronaut novel)
It's 1963, and riots and sabotage plague the space program. The climate change caused by the Meteor is becoming more …
Hirvox rated Kill It with Fire: 5 stars
Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti
“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that …
Hirvox rated Planetside: 4 stars
Hirvox rated Fugitive Telemetry: 4 stars
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
Hirvox rated Machines of loving grace: 4 stars
Machines of loving grace by John Markoff
"As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society--on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health--Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York …
Hirvox rated Escape from Yokai Land: 4 stars
Escape from Yokai Land by Charles Stross
Regular readers of Charles Stross’s Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard’s absence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks …
Hirvox rated How Civil Wars Start: 4 stars
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
The influence of modern life on the civil wars, with an emphasis on grievance, faction and democratic backsliding.
Hirvox rated Midnight Horizon: 3 stars
Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older, Daniel Older
Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, …
Hirvox rated The Kaiju Preservation Society: 4 stars
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Jamie’s dream was to hit the big time at a New York tech start-up. Jamie’s reality was a humiliating lay-off, …
Hirvox rated The Tyranny of Metrics: 4 stars
Hirvox rated Terry Pratchett's Guards! guards!: 4 stars
Hirvox rated Quantum of Nightmares: 4 stars
Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable …