Really well written and engrossing, yet halfway through I finally realized it was a goopy romance at heart ugh
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giantrobot rated Network Effect: 4 stars
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells’ New York Times and USA …
giantrobot rated Study Guide: 4 stars
giantrobot rated Dead Astronauts: 2 stars
giantrobot rated The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: 3 stars
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen …
giantrobot rated The City We Became: 3 stars
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
giantrobot rated All the Birds in the Sky: 4 stars
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further …
giantrobot reviewed The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday …
Review of 'The Night Circus' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
giantrobot rated Borne: 5 stars
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …
giantrobot reviewed The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, …
Review of 'The shock doctrine' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
To be honest, a lot of it reads as the paranoid ravings of a conspiracy theorist, but it's hard to deny the tactics of disaster capitalism given the countless examples deployed over decades and decades of Friedmanism gone wild, wreaking havoc in its wake in the name of unfettered free-market trade.
giantrobot rated To Be Taught, If Fortunate: 4 stars
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as …
giantrobot rated I Contain Multitudes: 5 stars
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, …
"Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes, …
Review of 'This is your brain on parasites' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
THE WORLD IS SO CRAZY HOW ARE WE EVEN ALIVE
giantrobot rated The lion in the living room: 3 stars
giantrobot rated Hello World: 3 stars
Hello World by Hannah Fry
Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how …