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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Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New …
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.
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
How do I work this bookwyrm thing? The book was awesome.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
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.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there are the things you'd expect. …
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide …
The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi. It was his debut novel and …
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.
In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and …
Not Mad Max.
The prose is poetry. Go slow.
In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and …
The prose is like poetry.
"Chinatown meets Mad Max" is wrong.
It's "Chinatown meets Neuromancer".
