Kavring wants to read There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic …
The surprise!
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Kavring rated Leviathan Wakes: 4 stars
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our …
Kavring reviewed The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
"How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? …
A riddle wrapped in a riot.
5 stars
Kavring rated The Golden House: A Novel: 4 stars
The Golden House: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
The Golden House is a 2017 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel, his eleventh, is set in Mumbai and New …
Kavring rated Autonomous: 5 stars
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
When anything can be owned, how can we be free
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, …
Kavring reviewed The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林, pinyin: Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by …
This is the Empire Strikes Back of this well-loved series.
Kavring rated The adventures of Alyx: 5 stars
The adventures of Alyx by Joanna Russ (The Women's Press science fiction)
Kavring reviewed ON CHESIL BEACH. by Ian McEwan
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of …
Most consequential depiction of a single pubic hair I have ever encountered.
Kavring reviewed Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it …
Most elaborate setup to deliver an anti-abortion sermon ever.
Kavring rated Bread & wine: 4 stars
Kavring rated Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1): 4 stars
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) by Robertson Davies
Fifth Business (1970) is a novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, it …
Kavring rated The Space Merchants: 5 stars
The Space Merchants by C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl (SFBC 50th Anniversary Edition, #2)
In this classic send-up of American commercialism, a near-future earth is resource-depleted but callously ruled by advertising, splitting society between …
Kavring rated Henrik Ibsen: 4 stars
Edmund Gosse: Henrik Ibsen (1977, Folcroft Library Editions)
Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse (Literary lives.)
Kavring rated The Golden Compass: 4 stars
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials, #1)
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip …
Kavring rated The Neutronium Alchemist: 4 stars
