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Now We Try It My Way

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Scifi, novels, interested in leftist politics & speculative fiction

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Stephen Baxter: Time (Manifold 1) (2000, Voyager)

Part of the Manifold series.

Doesnt meet the hype.

I read it because ive heard of the Downstreamers in scifi discussions and found the idea enticing. But while the book does deliver in the hard scifi department, i felt the execution of the downstreamers lacking and disliked the actual story the book had and its characters. I probably wont read the other two books in the series.

H. P. Lovecraft, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Weird Tales (EBook, 2011, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated)

Multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-traveling body snatchers and, yes, even huge albino …

From another age

I mostly read it to get an overview over the cthulhu mythos stories, which this collection delivers. I couldnt really get into the other stories it includes (which is why i give it only three stars). The introduction is very well written and very helpful in understanding the stories and the author.

Peter Watts: Firefall (Hardcover, Head of Zeus)

The upside of delayed gratification is reduced risk.

This volume includes both Blindsight and Echopraxia, the two books of the Firefall series. While both include great concepts and the notes are a great treasure trove for any hard scifi fan, the second book is definitely less interesting. But still a great read.