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, …
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Kavring reviewed The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (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 Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth (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 Reality Dysfunction: 4 stars
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton (The Night's Dawn, #1)
Space is not the only void...In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds …
Kavring rated The Neutronium Alchemist: 4 stars
The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton (The Night's Dawn, #2)
Kavring rated The Naked God (Night's Dawn Trilogy): 3 stars
Kavring rated Confession of a Buddhist Atheist: 4 stars
Kavring rated The Martian: 4 stars
The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …