Delta-V by Daniel Suarez
James Tighe, kurz JT, ist ein Glücksritter und der beste Höhlentaucher der Welt. Eines Tages lädt ihn der Milliardär Nathan …
If you, too, are ready to suspend your disbelief, by all means, jump in!
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Old white cishet suburban male. Software engineer.
Mostly interested in sci-fi (fiction) and anti-racism (non-fiction), but, wow, is that stuff Hard To Read. (Mostly because it's all my fault.)
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John Lusk reviewed Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
Well-written, but as a holder of degrees in Physics and Computer Science I had to suspend disbelief too many time
3 stars
John Lusk rated Infinity Gate: 3 stars
John Lusk commented on Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails …
Finally, after much avoidance, getting back to this. It's so unpleasant. Reading about white workers choosing not to unionize because unions were seen as a Black effort. Why are we so easily subverted by an appeal to selfishness?
John Lusk reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s bestselling and …
This series deserves all the accolades it's received
5 stars
So good.
John Lusk reviewed Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
Proof you can still have a good story even when you know the major characters are going to be ok
5 stars
It's a bit like robot-detective-noir. I loved it. Good combo of sardonicism (sardonicness? sardonicy?) and dry humor. (Or do those two always go together?)
John Lusk finished reading Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
As good as the others. (Which to say: excellent.)
John Lusk reviewed Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
This is why books are superior to video
5 stars
I am LOVING this series, and this novel was no exception.
With all the inner monologue and 4th-wall breaking (and the asynchronous HelpMe.file insertions), I keep thinking "how could this be rendered in video?" (Except I didn't think "render" in my head, because holy cow, is it pretentious.)
And my conclusion is: it would be tough, and very few could do it. I'd love to see it done well, but 99% of book-based video is so "lossy", to appropriate a criticism of JPEG as compared to GIF. ("Lossy" meaning all those delicate plot and character nuances are lost.)
John Lusk rated Network Effect: 5 stars
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
John Lusk reviewed Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New …
I estimate 97% probability I will read this entire series
5 stars
This one was also awesome. Murderbot, for some reason, feels responsible for some humans and a smaller number of other bots. This is an interesting plot device.
Also, it feels to me like there's this sort of "escaped slave at risk of being recaptured" thing, along with "other humans feel guilty about that and want to treat it kindly but murderbot finds that extremely awkward and tiresome" thing, and I think those two things could definitely be (de?)coded differently, if you have a mind to, and that feels different (and I like it).
Alsø alsø, there's that whole "cold, heartless sole wanderer always moving like a rolling stone" thing that's appealing.
John Lusk rated Artificial Condition: 5 stars
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
John Lusk reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Loved it
5 stars
How do I work this bookwyrm thing? The book was awesome.
John Lusk finished reading Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Pretty good. Light, like summertime reading, but (extremely) competently written, imo.
John Lusk rated The Windup Girl: 5 stars
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi. It was his debut novel and …
John Lusk finished reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi. It …
The prose is poetry. It's worth going slow to savor it, but that also makes it hard to read (i.e., it takes effort), as opposed to the pulp that is my usual diet. It's worth it, though.
I think of it as bio-punk. With enough Thai (presumably) words to keep you off-balance.