Brian Holley rated The Obelisk Gate: 5 stars

The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior …
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The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior …

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned …

Very quick read full of good ideas, but short on practical steps to achieve the goal they're searching for. Many of the ideas they espouse seem like great ways to reduce stress and hopefully make more of your time at work, but often the path from where your company or team is to their goal feels almost insurmountable and sometimes like you'd need to be the CEO just to enact that sort of change.
To some extent, the entire book felt a little like an extended recruiting pitch for Basecamp (the author's company).
Very quick read full of good ideas, but short on practical steps to achieve the goal they're searching for. Many of the ideas they espouse seem like great ways to reduce stress and hopefully make more of your time at work, but often the path from where your company or team is to their goal feels almost insurmountable and sometimes like you'd need to be the CEO just to enact that sort of change.
To some extent, the entire book felt a little like an extended recruiting pitch for Basecamp (the author's company).

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …

A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.
IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's …

A short book for almost all ages, it’s simply astrophysics for people in a hurry, taught by acclaimed astrophysicist Neil …

In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which …

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and …

Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. …

Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a monumental epic that follows his critically acclaimed international bestseller Cryptonomicon, is a novel of history, adventure, …
Fantastic collection of stories
This is a fantastic collection of short stories from a set of incredibly talented authors. They manage to build incredibly vivid and interesting worlds in such a short time and draw you in to tell their stories. Not a bad one in the bunch.