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Naomi Novik: The Summer War (Hardcover, 2025, Random House Worlds)

Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother, Argent, left …

Shorter and lesser than her other work, but not bad

This slim volume can almost be read in a single sitting. It seemed partially formed, and right when it started getting into gear it ended. I liked it, but it is rather insubstantial and unmemorable compared to her other books like Spinning Silver.

reviewed Protector by Larry Niven (Known Space)

Larry Niven: Protector (Paperback, 1987, Del Rey)

Protector is a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, set in his …

Product of its time

An interesting time capsule into sci-fi of 1973, this is a book about big ideas rather than characters, covering hundreds (or arguably thousands) of years. The two halves are fairly disjointed, and the conclusion felt tacced-on. Perhaps it makes more sense to a reader familiar with the rest of Niven's Known Space books, but a new inhabited star system in the last chapter was an abrupt deus ex machina for me. Not sorry I read it, though.