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Amanda

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Would you give up everything to change the world?

Humanity clings to life on January …

Review of 'City in the Middle of the Night' on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

Science fiction rests on suspended disbelief, and Charlie Jane Anders toys with that concept with a level of creativity I have never seen before. The world in this book feels plausible, and the world-building is amazing. But more importantly Charlie Jane uses tropes and their subversion expertly. In particular, I appreciated how the book deals with themes like friendship, trauma and healing, and relations in general in a way that felt more mature than any science fiction I think I have read before.

This feels like a science fiction that finally plays with a full hand of sciences, not just imaginary pseudo-physics.

William Gibson: Agency (Hardcover, 2020, Berkley) 4 stars

They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called …

Review of 'Agency' on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

Charmingly confusing and very Gibsonian.

Also, this is the first book I’ve read where people use bathrooms often enough to make me notice.