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Maxim

Iamgmm@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years ago

Software PM, bridge teacher, board game geek. Interested in stock markets and rational thinking.

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Maxim has read 0 of 30 books.

Neal Stephenson, Neal Stephenson: Seveneves (Paperback, 2016, The Borough Press)

When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish …

Grim dystopia

The first half is a detailed description of main characters dying gruesome deaths - it takes some effort to detach emotionally from them. The second half is an unsettling eugenics program - at least they did better than Dune's Bene Gesserit.

reviewed Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #2)

James S.A. Corey: Caliban's War (EBook, 2012, Orbit Books)

We are not alone.

On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine …

As good as the first book

Great world building, excellent character development and a strange feeling of incoming doom. Will look forward to reading the next volume.

The only drawback is that antagonists are not developed at all. When people behave badly just for the sake of being bad it's a fairy tale, not sci-fi.