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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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Margaret Killjoy's Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle …
These two books are like season one of Firefly: somewhat of a tragedy there's not more.
I can see the author wanting to move on, but dammit.
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon …
It's really, really good.
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk …
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon …
WOW, so good. Anarcho-noir.
Just finished. Wow, good. Thanks for posting this book. 🙂
In Enemy Hands is a military science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first …
Meh. Pretty sure I'm not going to finish this series unless I really, really need literary junk food. And even then, these books have enough really bad bosses that they provide no escape in that dimension.
Weber's plots are great, but his humans are cardboard cutouts, caricatures.
In Enemy Hands is a military science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first published in 1996. It is …
In Enemy Hands is a military science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first …
"Only a fool, which she manifestly was not, could have failed to realize that, but it wouldn't hurt if he could convince her that he thought she was foolish enough to believe that he thought she didn't know it."
And finally, NEVER go up against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line! HA ha ha ha, HA ha ha ha!
Novel 3 of the Harrington Series. Follows "The Honor of the Queen". After almost a …
Weber does a great job putting Horatio Hornblower IN S-P-A-A-A-C-E!!
Novel 3 of the Harrington Series. Follows "The Honor of the Queen". After almost a year to recover from the …
Novel 3 of the Harrington Series. Follows "The Honor of the Queen". After almost a …
Content warning Predictable plot turn 😀
Robert Stanton Pierre.
Rob S. Pierre.
Robespierre.
«"Surely you're not suggesting that senior Navy officers were responsible?!"
"I am suggesting only that until we know who was responsible, we must consider every possibility, however terrible," Pierre replied in a level voice. "I hope with all my heart that I am doing our military personnel a grave injustice by even suggesting such a thing, but until we can be certain of that, we owe it to the Republic to guard against the chance that I'm not."
"We owe it to the Republic?" someone else asked, without seeking recognition, and Pierre nodded grimly.
"The government has been destroyed, ladies and gentlemen. Secretary Saint-Just and Secretary Bergren are the cabinet's sole survivors, and only Secretary Saint-Just is currently on Haven. He's already informed me that, as no more than Secretary Palmer-Levy's acting successor, he feels neither qualified to nor capable of assuming the burden of government. Which means that we, the people's representatives, have no option but to assume emergency powers until such time as formal government can he reestablished."
"Us?" someone yelped, and Pierre nodded once more.
"I realize our experience is limited, but who else is there?" He looked at his fellows appealingly. "We are at war with the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its lackeys. In a time of such peril, the Republic must not drift uncontrolled, and until we can know positively that the military is reliable, we dare not place ourselves at its mercy. In the face of those inescapable and overriding concerns, we have no choice but to face our responsibility to provide the stability we so desperately need by organizing ourselves as a committee of public safety to assume direction of the state."»
Committee! Of Public! Safety!
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore’s dagger and as subtle as a fish …
Author of The Water Knife and The Windup Girl. This should not be hard to figure out on bookwyrm. 😡
A new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective …
Maybe I should read a few books disdainfully reviewed.
When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative—and unsanctioned—commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those …
Tough going. Plot's a little bleak.
