A lifelong bookworm who has never made it to Goodreads. Sci-fi, fantasy mostly. Kindle. The City of a hundred spires.
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The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its language and classes …
The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from …
No idea how this amazing piece of epic fantasy had been eluding me since 2003 when it was first published. Top shit.
A modern masterpiece, The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It …
Picked it up after 20 years or so.
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by …
Readable and forgettable. I should have heeded the Young Adult tag and passed on it, perhaps.
Is he the Chosen One?
"Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, one of the few capable of hunting the monsters …
CZ version
An easy read, but a poor man's First Law story.
Neutron stars, gamma rays, curvature, multiverse, Euler, Planck, six-dimensional space and the gang are at it again! This time in a story which, despite not being exactly original, is challenging and captivating. Had to do a ton of googling while reading, physics is not my cup of tea, and have enjoyed myself. Cannot but recommend.
Station Eleven is a 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, her fourth. It takes …
A surprisingly "civil" story about believable characters trying to eke it out in the aftermath of a grand fall.
Made me think of Covid and The Last of us.
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun
In …
A solid page turner.
A solid "I grew up at my father's estate surrounded by tutors and yet, chose to ditch the privilege and mingle with commoners in pursuit of galactic scale something while being a good person" kind of book.
Patrick Chiles: Perigee (EBook)
Stranded in orbit, with no way home before the air runs out…
A veteran pilot flying a revolutionary spaceplane,
A …
It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity …
The Dune vibes are strong with this one, and it is a solid three-star book. Read, put aside and never revisit. A pity, though, as the world and its dynamics and inhabitants could have been used to carve a better story.
Grabbed a real, paper-smelling book for a change
