The premise of this series (which I don't want to say, as it is kind of a spoiler) is incredibly fun. If you are a scientifically minded person and/or interested in fantasy, this book is going to tickle you in all the right spots.
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Merovius finished reading The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few …
Merovius started reading The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …
Merovius started reading The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Merovius finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Merovius finished reading Memory Librarian by Eve L. Ewing
Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe …
Merovius started reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) …
Merovius finished reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War is a 2019 science fiction epistolary novel …
Hauntingly beautiful. A love-letter to the written word.
I've read over 70 books in 2022 and this one is my favorite. Can't recommend it highly enough, go read it.
Merovius started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
This Is How You Lose the Time War is a 2019 science fiction epistolary novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max …
Merovius finished reading The Girl in the Road: A Novel by Monica Byrne
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Merovius finished reading The Three-Body Problem by 刘慈欣
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
This is the first time I read a book translated from Chinese. So this might be an artifact from the translation, it might be a cultural difference or it might be a property of the book: I found this pretty hard to interpret.
The book uses a style that is very direct and doesn't use a lot of adjectives. Meanwhile, it is extremely allegorical. The Sci-Fi is "hard" (closely related to theories from real Physics), but at the same time understood very metaphorical.
Ultimately, I'm just not sure what the story is trying to tell me. I can tell that there is something there - in many places, the story rhymes with itself, in a way that is too obvious to be accidental. But figuring out what that is would likely require a second read and a lot of thought, at least. And I'm not sure I liked the book …
This is the first time I read a book translated from Chinese. So this might be an artifact from the translation, it might be a cultural difference or it might be a property of the book: I found this pretty hard to interpret.
The book uses a style that is very direct and doesn't use a lot of adjectives. Meanwhile, it is extremely allegorical. The Sci-Fi is "hard" (closely related to theories from real Physics), but at the same time understood very metaphorical.
Ultimately, I'm just not sure what the story is trying to tell me. I can tell that there is something there - in many places, the story rhymes with itself, in a way that is too obvious to be accidental. But figuring out what that is would likely require a second read and a lot of thought, at least. And I'm not sure I liked the book enough for that investment.
Merovius started reading The Three-Body Problem by 刘慈欣
The Three-Body Problem by 刘慈欣
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …